The comparison of cells with crystals was made in 1838 by the founders of the cell-theory, Schleiden and Schwann.
The two great founders of the theory of descent--Lamarck and Darwin--were able to penetrate so deeply into the mysteries of organic life and its development because they had extensive attainments both in botany and zoology.
At Salem I encountered the stern founders of Massachusetts; at Plymouth I watched the Mayflower threading its way round the shoals and promontories of that intricate bay.
Those who did not flee remained in old England, fought a few battles, and tried to establish a commonwealth, which in less than fifteen years ended disastrously, because the founders were unfit for government.
As sure as you live, gentlemen, that is no unfair representation of how it was with the founders of the New England commonwealths in their planting period.
It is generally safe to suspect the book which must be defended by a formula and the writers who insist that they are the founders of a school.
Most lady doctors and learned women would like nothing better than to be the founders of a family.
Its foundersobtained a measure of official aid, and were able to secure the services of some good artists, among whom may be mentioned Obanawa and Shimauchi.
The founders of Jamaica were mostly Presbyterians, and they organized one of the first Presbyterian churches in America.
He was one of the founders of the Evangelical Alliance and of the Congregational Union of England and Wales.
Some founders of grammar schools linked their schools with particular colleges in the universities following the example of Winchester being associated with New College, Oxford, and Eton with King's College, Cambridge.
Elizabeth Elstob, who studied Teutonic languages, was one of the founders of women's education.
Next, notice that the founders of religion have prized simplicity and have been the bitterest foes of learning.
He and his son tried to maintain the principles of the Puritan founders of Massachusetts, which included the theories of diabolical possession and witchcraft.
Home Rule is at bottom federalism, and the successful working of a federal government depends on the observation by its founders of two principles.
The wise founders of the United States prohibited both to Congress and to every State legislature the passing of ex post facto legislation.
The true reason why the founders of the new constitution have omitted in this instance to copy a polity which they profess to admire is not hard to discover.
The preparedness advocates had evoked the spirit of the founders of American democracy and worked upon the emotions of the people until it was generally understood that those who favored preparedness were patriots.
It was political democracy upon which the founders of the Republic depended to make good the promise of 1776.
The founders of our government were not averse to such changes in the system which they established as would promote or at least not interfere with their main purpose--the protection of the minority against the majority.
Our natural inclination is to disbelieve anything that reflects on the political methods employed by the founders of our government.
This practically destroyed the executive check in the English Constitution and for that very reason the founders of our government rejected it.
Some of the checks which the founders of our government established no longer exist except in form.
We are certain, in the case of the Ionic colonies, and may well assume it for the other cases, that the founders of these cities were not landed squires, but seafaring merchants.
And yet we find, thousands of years ago, this same feudal system developed, by Semites, if the founders of the Egyptian kingdom were Semites.
For this reason, the Vikings have the same capacity to choose the political means as the basis of their economic existence as have the cattle raiders; and similarly they have been founders of states on a large scale.
Tried by their own aims, the founders of the United States were wise in excluding the Ministers from Congress.
In 1851 he was one of the founders of Port Townsend, in Washington.
The founders of this enterprise were members of the Methodist mission.
Many honors were bestowed upon him at this time--the medal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, the Founders medal from the King of Prussia, an honorary membership of the Geographical Society of Berlin, etc.
She was one of the founders of the Red Cross Society for the relief of the sick and wounded in war.
They seized on Novogorod, and became the founders of the Russian Empire, and of a line of Czars which became extinct only in 1598, when the Slavonic dynasty succeeded.
Members of the Society will learn with pleasure that its example has been followed, not only by the Old French Text Society which has done such admirable work under its founders Profs.
In the margin: "Endeavor to have these two founders sent; have them sought carefully, and ask the captain-general for them.
Dee, who, without intending it, became the actual, though never the recognised founders of the Rosicrucian philosophy.
The wisdom of the founders of the Republic is disputed and the political ideas which they repudiated are urged for approval.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "founders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
