How To Use Raison d'etre In A Sentence
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After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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The other candidates in that election, had one of them won, would have continued to temporize, while Lincoln, in his own seemingly tentative style, refused to budge on the Republican Party's raison d'etre of no expansion of slavery into the territories.
John Marszalek: What if Lincoln lost the election?
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There are many reasons why such parties might be important, but their most significant raison d'être is one which could be described as epistemological in nature – that is, concerned with the nature, foundations and presuppositions of ‘knowledge’.
Missing In Inaction: Why An Opposition Party Matters
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After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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Work seems to be her sole raison d'etre.
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In fact, is an immune organ tonsil is part of the immune system, it has its raison d'etre.
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After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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It's all too easy to forget that while exams, finals and academic achievement all have their place they shouldn't be our raison d'être.
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I think it's important to recognize the cost of war and to weight that cost against our raison d'être.
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Its raison d'être is to engage politically apathetic young women.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even when some twenty years before his death at ninety the life's raison d'être began to diminish before ceasing altogether, his attitude was calm and stoical.
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Before the party chooses its next leader it needs to find a new raison d'être or become an irrelevance.
Times, Sunday Times
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When eye candy loses its lustre, its raison d'être is spent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rewi Alley wrote: "Actually the work of Gung Ho was done in the 1938-1942 peroid. The contribution towards keeping Chiang Kai-shek in the war was then the main raison d'etre.
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If they fail to reproduce their kind, they have failed in their purpose; they are unconsciously ruled by the philoprogenitive passion; it is their raison d'etre, for it they are fed, clothed, trained, bred.
Captivity
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The title of the movie is a spoiler, and so is the entire raison d'être - it's a revenge thriller, everyone knows what's going to happen.
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When eye candy loses its lustre, its raison d'être is spent.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ingathering of Jews from the Diaspora is ‘the raison d'être of the Jewish State ’.
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Each barricade is an investigation of both fortification and subversion; designing for the defense of each checkpoint, while simultaneously attempting to undermine it’s perceived raison d'être through a means of confrontation, provocation, or absurdism.
Programming (In)Security
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After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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The collapse of the Soviet Union, which led to the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and the instauration of a new unipolar world order under the leadership of the United States, deprived NATO of its raison d'être.
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This year, which sees significant milestones for both Schumann (his bicentenary) and Hugo Wolf (the 150th anniversary of his birth), is a natural focus for a festival whose raison d'être is a celebration of 19th-century song, and both composers dominate the fortnight of recitals.
This week's new live music
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The experiments that were supposed to be its raison d'être are mostly school projects: can mustard and cress grow in space?
Times, Sunday Times
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The final item on our agenda, the raison d'être I'd invited Mr. Keno over in the first place, was to examine the table by the front door, the one that resembled the piece of furniture I'd seen him appraise on "Roadshow," and which also came from my grandmother.
Picky on Provenance
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Its raison d'être is to engage politically apathetic young women.
Times, Sunday Times
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`Raison d'être" and ` ergo " insinuated themselves into every one of his calls.
THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
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In fact, is an immune organ tonsil is part of the immune system, it has its raison d'etre.