Sentence examples for well founded it from inspiring English sources

Premonitions well founded, it turned out: Châtelet died nine days after the birth of her baby girl.

Most of their claim has been struck out after a high court judge ruled that although it was "well founded", it would be too damaging to UK relations with the US to allow it to proceed.

As we know, Badinter's warnings about the dangers of excessive child-­centeredness are in many ways well founded; it was, after all, a general exasperation with our hyper­ventilating mode of motherhood that led us, in the past Tiger Mother-­dominated Mother-­dominatedart casting our eyearabrord for insoiratoon.

The claim of Ibn Baṭṭūṭah to be "the traveler of Islam" is well founded: it is estimated that the extent of his wanderings was some 75,000 miles (120,000 km), a figure hardly surpassed by anyone before the age of steam power.

To the extent that this complaint is well founded it is devastating, as it suggests that war crime tribunals do not result in a full or coherent exercise of retributive justice (for a comprehensive account see Cryer 2005).

Given the negative, critical, suspicious attitude of the Enlightenment towards doctrines traditionally regarded as well founded, it is not surprising that Enlightenment thinkers employ skeptical tropes (drawn from the ancient skeptical tradition) to attack traditional dogmas in science, metaphysics and religion.

Even if it is well founded (and it is), the administration must be understandably irked by the barrage of skepticism that is greeting this week's peace summit, with reaction mostly ranging from scorn to yawn -- with only a few exceptions.

Bank supervisors can impart only so much common sense to those who think they know best.Just when you thought it was safeBesides, the regulators' reluctance to second-guess bank executives was well founded, because it can take them onto dangerous ground.

The complete story, he insists, is that the central role of images was fully affirmed only because it had been challenged by the iconoclasts; and they, in turn, were responding to the rise of Islam, which seemed to combine military success with antipathy to representational sacred art.That linkage may be well founded, but it is impossible to prove.

Jonze's lack of confidence in the market's ability to maintain access to the objects of delight, his suspicion of the manipulation of desire through controlled inaccessibility, may be well founded, but it hardly takes two hours of inflated fantasy to suggest as much.

The importance of cities in our society is well founded and it is evident that cities play a crucial role as more than half of world population lives in them.