Example collocations logo

Founding in sentence

388 examples of Founding in a sentence

The six founding members - Germany, France, Italy, and the Benelux-countries - waged war against each other several times during the first half of the 20th century.
Since Islam’s founding in the seventh century, it has maintained a tradition of deep military engagement in politics and governance.
Adopted globally in 1992 as part of the United Nations Rio Convention on sustainable development, and later incorporated into one of the European Union’s founding treaties, the precautionary principle states that a lack of certainty cannot be a basis for failing to protect human health or the environment.
They were more than our then-protected economy could absorb, so many tens of thousands of them left to make their fortunes elsewhere, founding companies in Silicon Valley, inventing the Pentium chip, and even winning a couple of Nobel Prizes.
All five appointees were born after the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.
Only some stalwarts timidly point to the inflammatory question posed by Mack the Knife in Berthold Brecht’s Threepenny Opera: “What is a bank robbery compared to the founding of a bank?
Both Jean Claude Trichet, the ECB president, and Jacques Attali, the founding president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, have now called openly for the establishment of a European Ministry of Finance.
Each belonged to a special class of women whose husbands or fathers were their country’s recognized founding father or longstanding political leader.
Such reforms, which would be popular in almost all member countries, need not conflict with the EU’s founding principles if they preserve the right to work throughout Europe, but return some control over non-economic migration and welfare payments to national governments.
Rather, they are emanating from the geopolitical West’s two founding members: the United States and the United Kingdom.
Toward a People-Centered ASEAN CommunitySEOUL – I am delighted that my first meeting with the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations comes at a historic moment: the 50th anniversary of ASEAN’s founding.
No state is static, and Israel has changed a great deal since the heroic decades after its founding in 1948.
But, even to this day, Saudi Arabia is home to an anti-Western tribal society, ruled by one family, the House of Saud, as an absolute monarchy since the country’s founding in 1932.
Some laws, enacted long ago for a European Community of six founding members, are still on the books.
Coase’s Chinese LegacyHONG KONG – The recent death of Ronald H. Coase, the founding father of new institutional economics, is a great loss to Chinese economists who are seeking an effective framework for understanding China’s ongoing economic transformation.
In the Palestinian territories, the jil al-intifada , the generation of the (first and second) Palestinian uprising, will likely become the founding generation.
After the Kingdom’s founding in 1932, many Saudis enjoyed unprecedentedly high standards of living, and hundreds of members of the Saudi royal family were transformed from desert sheikhs into enormously rich members of the international moneyed elite.
Various sons of the regime’s founder, Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, succeeded each other as rulers a kingdom that, following Arab tradition, bore the name of its founding and ruling dynasty (another is the current Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan).
Jean Monnet, one of the EU’s founding fathers, repeatedly returned to the notion that the urgency of emergency would propel integration.
This was true even in the United States, which enacted the most restrictive immigration laws since the country’s founding.
For the EU to lose a country as militarily and economically important as the UK is bad enough; but to lose a founding EU member state, such as France, would be tragic.
In fact, 57 countries – including major powers like France, Germany, and the United Kingdom – have signed up as founding members, which may reflect a growing awareness of the US-dominated order’s diminishing returns.
Labor-exporting countries today are not so different from OPEC’s founding members in 1960.
True, the US has been home to a rigid, albeit comparably fluid, class structure ever since its founding.
Decades ago, following independence, Kenya’s founding father, Jomo Kenyatta, sent thousands of his own Kikuyu tribesmen to settle around Mpeketoni.
The ECB’s founding chief economist, Otmar Issing, has referred to this as a road to serfdom.
The law of 1905 – regarded by many to be the founding text of French secularism – was thus the culmination of a long historical process.
Shortly after its founding, it tried debt mutualization, with Alexander Hamilton, America’s first Treasury secretary, describing the scheme in 1791 as the “cement” for a new American federation.
The founding fathers of what is now the EU were well aware of the long-term strategic potential of what many at the time regarded as an inconsequential technocratic measure.
The World Bank has become the World Bank Group, though its founding pillar, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), remains at its center.
BackNext