be founded

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“But I don’t believe any state should be founded and centered upon an ethnic or religious identity.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2024

“Like the ordinary municipal laws, it may be founded upon our consent or that of our representatives; but it derives its ultimate obligatory force as a law, and not as a compact.”

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2023

"If there was an illiquidity premium, it has to be disclosed and it has to be founded in empirical evidence."

From Reuters • May 5, 2023

It said the nine-member board had come to a unanimous conclusion that the prosecutors' allegations "did not appear to be founded" and that the club had always acted correctly.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2022

The ceremony took place fifteen miles from Macondo in the shade of a gigantic ceiba tree around which the town of Neerlandia would be founded later.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez