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How to use the word well-founded in a Sentence?

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If The FAA genuinely had a concern back in 2018, 2019 or 2020, I wish they had raised them then, if indeed they were well founded.

Ajit Pai

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's a well-founded hope that The Supreme Court will overturn Roe, or at least allow far more leeway to the state in terms of sending abortion policy, so I think people here are hopeful, but I don't think anyone's considering this to be a slam dunk.

Maureen Ferguson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our commitment to Pacific Island is longstanding and comprehensive, any suggestion we do it in response to other countries is not well founded if you look at decades of consistent wide-ranging support.

Zed Seselja

Found on CNN
2 years ago

But we would be foolish to believe this changes any other well-founded concerns around Google's dominance over the digital ad business.

Jason Kint

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There is no relation between these things. Yes, the minister has come with this argument, and he has well-founded arguments for the case he is making. But this has no relation with the other topics of negotiation here, yesterday we had a long meeting and he at no point established this link. These things are not linked. This negotiation is happening in parallel.

Marco Tulio

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is crucially important as it shows how well founded concerns over the Chequers conclusions are, if the Brexit Secretary could not support them they cannot genuinely be delivering Brexit.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Mr Rato came to the ministry to talk to me about a well-founded concern affecting his personal security, he told me of his particular concern about the serious threats and insults that both he and people in his close circle were receiving, (about) situations in which he was being assaulted and verbally rebuked as well as reiterated threats received through other channels, particularly social networks.

Fernandez Diaz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The thing is ridiculous, and it is not a well-founded strike.

London Mayor Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The thing is ridiculous and it is not a well-founded strike.

London Mayor Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In today's falling market we have well-founded reasons to cancel the contract, we don't see a market where it is possible to use this aircraft. We haven't yet seen the worst of this crisis.

Chief Executive Vitaly Savelyev

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That’s a very problematic way to proceed, given the obvious differences you think of between those who breastfeed and those who don’t, we can’t make policy based on an accounting exercise that is not as well founded as we’d like.

Robert Kaestner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We can’t make policy based on an accounting exercise that is not as well founded as we’d like.

Robert Kaestner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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