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    1. She was a founder of a major study at the Kassikan, she has a small percentage to the rights to all Yingolian crystals


    2. She was the founder of a Study and on the central committee of another


    3. Lopez is also the founder of the ClubIG which he started in an effort to raise the consciousness of all those concerned with their environment The club publishes a newsletter every month on website or yearly via snail mail, which discusses new products new procedures, and a number of timely topics relating to planting and growing


    4. "Thrusters," the founder who hadn't introduced himself said


    5. The unnamed founder answered that, "Let's see some more of the images before we leap to any conclusions


    6. London boasts at least seven Interweb billionaires amongst its fabled glitterati, but not one of them can begin to measure their fortune or their white-hot technological status against that of old Jimmy Cameron, the founder, chief executive and principle shareholder of NanoGoo International


    7. I, the founder of Christian Satanism, who has authored it, believes in a sacred rule


    8. She was an important sorceress now, the founder of the Study of Virtuality and a committeewoman on Photovoltaics


    9. Of course there’s a side of me that wants to yell at you for blurting that out,” and her voice did get more stress, “I’ve made my wishes clear that I didn’t want to be known as a ghost from YingolNeerie but as the founder of the Study of Virtuality


    10. “She is on the Supreme Council, but she is not a founder,” Ava said

    11. No matter what their culture, he was sure she would want to feel she was attractive, even if she was Yingolian, even if she was the founder of a study


    12. After dinner he was glad to accompany her just for the prestige, to be seen out and about with the founder of a Study


    13. That hardly seemed a motive compared to currying favor with a founder of the Kassikan


    14. “I know a founder personally, I know he would have done no such thing


    15. Port Hedland – named after its founder, Peter Hedland in 1863, now it supports a population of 14,000 and is the highest tonnage port in Australia


    16. area’s historical association with their founder, Saint


    17. "The Althart? The founder?"


    18. Canonized, raised to the rank of founder in


    19. founder of Church of England


    20. By what a frugal man annually saves, he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands, for that of the ensuing year, but like the founder of a public work-house he establishes, as it were, a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come

    21. Instead of waiting for ships to founder on their own,


    22. When Heather Lytle began her career in marketing, the Internet was still for the elite and geeky, the founder of Facebook didn’t even have his driver’s permit, and Google was simply an idea


    23. The perhaps even sadder and still more ironic thing of course was the state of Talos: even in his own homeland, there were many who worshipped Tiber Septim, not least of all for being the founder of the Empire itself


    24. The state seems to have assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta, the founder of the Stoics


    25. founder, and Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple


    26. The Arts Committee, of which they were founder members


    27. Along with Nehru, pretty much the founder of the modern state of India


    28. experience to its founder, Paul J


    29. Jack Mills, the founder of Carolin Homes, was already balding and a little paunchy while in his thirties, but there was nothing flaccid about his brain


    30. The Rhodesians were founder members of the rebirth of the British SAS in Malaya

    31. He was also one of the founder members of Koevoet where he participated in more than 400 contacts (shootouts with the terrorists)


    32. For example, the founder and owner of Time magazine for over 40 years was famed conservative Henry Luce


    33. founder of the practice of Reiki, energy healing


    34. The founder of Fantasy Island had discovered a way to hack into WorldJail’s computer network, gaining access to the thousands of minds imprisoned there, and what happened next was inevitable


    35. Irenee Du Pont of the Dupont family, one of the wealthiest in the nation, worth hundreds of millions, was a white supremacist and founder of the American Liberty League


    36. Carter should be compared to figures like Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine, or Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross


    37. It absorbed one of the two empires that had exhausted themselves warring against each other for generations, and then, renewed its assault upon the remaining eastern lands of the survivor, whose capital Constantinople was observed by its founder to be the cultural and economic center of gravity of the whole Roman Empire


    38. In idly thumbing through the rest of the magazine, I came across an article commemorating the death in AD 680 of the founder of the Shi’ite portion of Islam


    39. In propounding their version of the history wherein the Shi’ites view themselves as the rightful heirs to follow on after their founder, a short account of the original movement was given that led up to the fateful date that they have commemorated ever since


    40. For a few short busy years (either seven or ten) he had been its founder and unchallenged leader

    41. It contributed its principles to, and Followers subconsciously drew from these other cults, precepts at variance with the teachings of its founder, Jesus of Nazareth


    42. i had been the founder and President


    43. He became the founder of a city and gave the city the name of his son Enoch


    44. He became the founder of a city and gave the city the name of his son Enoch»


    45. Plato’s Republic, a utopian account of the ideal State, would ground him as a founder of modern philosophy


    46. But, according to this school of thought, the founder of sigmund Freud's theory, the


    47. the fire; the founder melts in vain, for the wicked are not plucked away


    48. In attempting to do so, I will draw on the "The Twelve Principles of Buddhism", written in 1942 and attributed to Christmas Humphries (1901-1983) – founder and president of the Buddhist Society of London


    49. Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning


    50. 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven














































    1. Shortly after this visit the relationship with Rose foundered on a sea of unreturned telephone calls and ignored emails


    2. the relationship with Rose foundered on a sea of unreturned


    3. If the worst happens, and the ship fills with water because she has foundered or been holed, the ballast stones will automatically be dumped by Translocation, and if necessary much of the cargo as well, until it has been freed of enough weight that the wood of her material is sufficient to keep her afloat


    4. She had ridden all night, and dawn found her with a foundered steed on the swampy shores of the sea


    5. foundered, and we lapsed into two minutes of excruciating silence


    6. an intellectual decision maker, the company foundered and had to sell off much of its


    7. In these sheltered lakes the little coloured flowers swam and slid; surmounted smooth slippery waves, and sometimes foundered and lay like pebbles on the glass floor


    8. Hippolyte went to Neufchatel, and Justin so spurred Bovary's horse that he left it foundered and three parts dead by the hill at Bois-Guillaume


    9. harbour she suddenly struck on a rock, and foundered within sight of the palace


    10. We are liege subjects of the catholic chivalry of Europe that foundered at Trafalgar and of the empire of the spirit, not an imperium, that went under with the Athenian fleets at Aegospotami

    11. the larger part of them foundered near the shore


    12. The money ran out, another investment foundered, the loan came due, and Louie had to turn over his keys


    13. Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in Lat


    14. A splintered boat and a number of crates and fragments of spars rising and falling on the waves showed us where the vessel had foundered; but there was no sign of life, and we had turned away in despair when we heard a cry for help, and saw at some distance a piece of wreckage with a man lying stretched across it


    15. Next day we were picked up by the brig Hotspur, bound for Australia, whose captain found no difficulty in believing that we were the survivors of a passenger ship which had foundered


    16. If Operation Demon Brother has indeed foundered, then the Econoline and the books inside are all he has to show for his own existence, and he’s not about to give them up, even if the van is by most lights Sol’s


    17. He had left Cornoiller at Angers to look after the horses, which were well-nigh foundered, with orders to bring them home slowly after they were rested


    18. They would have foundered in the Dead Marshes but for Gollum


    19. spurred to the standard, hewed staff and bearer; and the black serpent foundered


    20. 'Yes,' said Faramir, 'of the land of Westernesse that foundered and of

    21. His last valet was a big, foundered, short-


    22. ‘Thank you, Lord,’ murmured the priest, as he felt the vast weight creak the other half of the confessional like a ship foundered with wild freight


    23. Hamstrung, the old old man foundered to his knees, as did his suppliant images, his congregation of terrified selves one week, one month, two years, twenty, fifty, seventy, ninety years from now! every second, minute, and long-after-midnight hour of his possible survival into insanity, there all sank grayer, more yellow as the mirrors ricocheted him through, bled him lifeless, mouthed him dry, then threatened to whiff him to skeletal dusts and litter his moth ashes to the floor


    24. Friendships have foundered on less


    25. Nothing in life will ever approach the joy felt by the hundreds who were waiting in little boats on the spot where the Titanic foundered when the lights of the Carpathia were first distinguished


    26. ; boat in charge of officer, and he reported that Titanic had foundered


    27. While the corrected list cleared up two or more of the wireless confusions that caused so much speculation in the original list, there still remained a few names that so far as the record of the Titanic showed were not on board that ship when she foundered


    28. —Steamer London, on her way to Melbourne, foundered in the Bay of Biscay; 220 lives lost


    29. —British training ship Eurydice, a frigate, foundered near the Isle of Wight; 300 lives lost


    30. Franklin continued, "a message was received telling the fateful news that the Carpathia reached the Titanic and found nothing but boats and wreckage; that the Titanic had foundered at 2

    31. He describes how a feeble little nag has foundered under too heavy a load and cannot move


    1. Ours, under the present administration, is foundering and about to capsize


    2. “Well,” I ventured, “if one were riding down that river one would be too busy trying to avoid hitting rocks or foundering in the rough water to see much and one would have to be able to fly to see it from the air


    3. Nevertheless, in the emptiness of so many women who came into his life in the same way, he did not remember that she was the one who in the delirium of that first meeting was on the point of foundering in her own tears and scarcely an hour before her death had sworn to love him until she died


    4. A time arrives when the representative of timocracy has a son: at first he begins by emulating his father and walking in his footsteps, but presently he sees him of a sudden foundering against the State as upon a sunken reef, and he and all that he has is lost; he may have been a general or some other high officer who is brought to trial under a prejudice raised by informers, and either put to death, or exiled, or deprived of the privileges of a citizen, and all his property taken from him


    5. There was a long silence, broken only by the lapping of the waves as the foundering ship spun slowly in the current


    6. As an accompaniment to this picture Bert played the tune of `Goodbye, Dolly, I must leave you', and by the time the audience had finished singing the chorus he had rolled on another scene, which depicted a dreadful storm at sea, with a large ship evidently on the point of foundering


    7. Such a conflict could explain why I stumbled, clipped one tree trunk with my left shoulder, another with my right, slipped and fell to one knee, thrust up and took only a dozen steps before foundering against a projection of rock, over which I clambered as gracefully as if I had been wearing clown shoes


    8. And yet, tho’ the Decks were pounded and drown’d, we somehow did not crack, tho’ all around us, Ships were foundering, or cutting down their Masts, e’en before the Wind could do it for ’em


    9. Inez Fleming’s husband had arrived right then and told Inez not to talk to the press, and now, six hours later, Cindy was foundering in quicksand and running out of time


    10. Is this how it was over a century ago, she wondered, when the women, the night before, lay ready for sleep, or not ready, in the small towns of the East, and heard the sound of horses in the night and the creak of the Conestoga wagons ready to go, and the brooding of oxen under the trees, and the cry of children already lonely before their time? All the sounds of arrivals and departures into the deep forests and fields, the blacksmiths working in their own red hells through midnight? And the smell of bacons and hams ready for the journeying, and the heavy feel of the wagons like ships foundering with goods, with water in the wooden kegs to tilt and slop across prairies, and the chickens hysterical in their slung-beneath-the-wagon crates, and the dogs running out to the wilderness ahead and, fearful, running back with a look of empty space in their eyes? Is this, then, how it was so long ago? On the rim of the precipice, on the edge of the cliff of stars? In their time the smell of buffalo, and in our time the smell of the Rocket? Is this, then, how it was?

    11. This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog—in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn; but changing his manner towards the concluding stanzas, burst forth with a pealing exultation and joy—


    12. "Captain Peleg," said Bildad steadily, "thy conscience may be drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can't tell; but as thou art still an impenitent man, Captain Peleg, I greatly fear lest thy conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering down to the fiery pit, Captain Peleg


    13. "Now, gentlemen, sweeping a ship's deck at sea is a piece of household work which in all times but raging gales is regularly attended to every evening; it has been known to be done in the case of ships actually foundering at the time


    14. In other words, sir, to avoid the possibility of Christophe and his seamen foundering on board these rotten hulks, my colleague would much rather drive him into Baltimore, where he can purchase good vessels, which will answer his purpose much better than these frigates, which the barbarians would not know how to manage, and which are not calculated, from their great draught, for predatory warfare in the West India seas


    1. He raised a rifle in the air, an ancient Kalishnakov from the days of the founders, and threw his head back and rattled the whole clip into the sky


    2. Being plush, and obviously eager to bed someone important enough to be flown in to a meeting with the founders, it was very pleasant walking up the stairs with her


    3. "I better go in," he said, "I doubt it's polite to meet the founders with an erection


    4. He's the son of John Blake who was one of the founders of the firm


    5. She saw the parallels with the founders of the Kassikan and wondered if she saw Alan’s fingerprints here once again


    6. Yes, she knew the founders much better than he did


    7. I was told one of the founders made this himself


    8. ” If he thought his one country butt walking around questioning people was going to learn what the founders couldn’t learn when the case was fresh, he was seriously out of touch


    9. No doubt there was something else interesting the founders these days because comatose bodies were not getting a lot of attention


    10. She could not believe that the Kassikan itself, especially the founders that she knew personally, could have deliberately overdosed Tdeshi to proceed with the transfer

    11. He didn’t want to be known by the general population as one of the founders because then he would have no privacy when wandering about the place


    12. That’s what he liked about being one of the founders, there was no one to keep him on task


    13. The next floor that closed over this was the upper throne room, the one in the middle of the founders lab


    14. All the founders were immortals from ancient times, most of the executives have stayed on since the 35th


    15. This was one of the highest ranking committees with none of the founders on it as even an honorary member


    16. It might take one of the founders to authorize it, but if the case turned on that information, he would have it


    17. “To the top, she knows the founders


    18. Good grief, Ava knew, a woman who knows Founders, intimately


    19. associated with their founders, Abelard and Heloise4


    20. He's as old as the founders themselves and he's the one who really wants the reading it turns out

    21. Lang was one of the founders of "psychical research" and wrote extensively on dreams, ghosts, magic and religion


    22. Why did the founders of communism want to wipe out


    23. I sighed and continued, “Having the Cross blood was a bigger plus because it meant I was descended from the founders of two covens: Sacred Moon and Meadow Falls


    24. The founders of two great religions, Christianity and Buddhism, walked among us long ago


    25. philosophers for the founders of their respective systems


    26. The why is beyond my reach, but I"d wager that the Founders would have been astounded


    27. forcefully displaying the Founders" intention never to allow the establishment in America of a state-supported Church analogous to the Church of England


    28. One of the most important Founders


    29. Primary author of the Declaration of Independence, and perhaps the most learned of the founders, who were a group of very learned men in history, in science, in economics in politics, and in philosophy


    30. One of our underrated founders

    31. He depends on the old liberal mantra that times have changed, and since our Founders could not know about the advancements of the present era, the Constitution must remain pliable or, as Thomas Jefferson warned in 1819, „…a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please


    32. And now, in rebuttal to Richard Stengel and his co-idiots at Time, let"s see what some of our most important Founders actually did write about our Constitution and the rule of law


    33. We can only go by the words the Founders wrote, as they were commonly understood at the time of their writing


    34. The firm and its founders have stood by me and the synagogue as long as I can remember and I’ll stand by them


    35. He was one of the founders of the Institute of Stomatology at Tel Hashomer hospital


    36. This was true of the founders as well


    37. Quite normally the Founders could not predict the future


    38. Had the Founders been able to see the future better, I am confident, based on their papers, they would have put in the Constitution stronger language to curtail those who would not think clearly


    39. Aside from the Founders every one of you who often puzzles, ―But that does not make common sense!‖, is probably a Conservative


    40. § 2nd - The founders partners are those that subscribe the

    41. The Declaration and the Constitution, The Founders, The New Government,


    42. “Let’s look back to the time of the Founders


    43. The Patriot’s Corner contained a miniature of a mural in the Pennsylvania State Capitol where the Founders and Lincoln could be spotted amidst a large gathering that


    44. That’s why the Founders specifically talked about the right to bear arms


    45. revolutionary, like our Founders were revolutionaries


    46. Surely, the Founders risked prompting a revolution they felt was necessary


    47. Jason asked himself more than once, How could Stroyer place such criminals as Lenin in the same phrase as our Founders, human as they were?


    48. “In accordance with the intentions of our city’s founders, we have two goals: to overthrow Evelyn and the factionless so that we can reestablish the factions, and to send some of our number outside the city to see what’s out there


    49. The Founders did not fully anticipate that the Supreme Court would someday create laws


    50. Founders were ever mindful of the crimes and excesses of the Church and monarchs of













































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    Synonyms for "founder"

    beginner father founder founding father laminitis break cave in collapse fall in give give way fall flat fall through flop fail miscarry break down forefather patron prime mover benefactor author

    "founder" definitions

    inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse


    a person who founds or establishes some institution


    a worker who makes metal castings


    fail utterly; collapse


    sink below the surface


    break down, literally or metaphorically


    stumble and nearly fall