Sentence examples for were founded on from inspiring English sources

According to legend, the 49ers were founded on the back of a napkin in one of the booths.

The Ruf/Neks were founded on rowdiness.

That's the principle we were founded on.

"All the failed paradises I discovered," he writes, "were founded on the misguided belief of arrival.

Some of these colonies were set alongside existing settlements; others were founded on new sites.

The Roman colonies of Volturnum and Liternum were founded on Capuan territory in 194 bc.

They were founded on the principles, if often not the practice, of republican and constitutional government.

Cnidus and Halicarnassus subsequently were founded on the peninsulas of western Caria.

In Roman Catholicism new orders were founded on a large scale.

As a brand and platform, we were founded on taking risks and being different and we're comfortable with that".

Cable claimed the Conservative politcs were founded on a belief that "fear trumps hope; that competence requires callousness.