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Example sentences for: founded

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The museum, in a shockingly grandiose neoclassic building on a beguiling little street, is named for its benefactor and the town’s former mayor, whose family founded the Bacardí rum empire (which moved its headquarters and production to Puerto Rico after the revolution).
In the Penha Hills above the city is the lovely Mosteiro de Santa Marinha da Costa, founded in the 12th century.
The garden had been founded as early as 1670 as a resource for medical research, affiliated for many years with the Royal College of Physicians.
In this haven for pirates and rum-runners, Samuel Cunard (1787–1865) founded his famous transatlantic shipping line with a fortune acquired in large part from privateering.
In the mid '60s, he and Irving Kristol founded the policy journal The Public Interest , arguing that, with the end of ideology, the ladder to the City of Heaven must be an "empirical one," based on hardheaded problem-solving.