Sentence examples for and raison from inspiring English sources

Grove-White and Suich — met recently to discuss its philosophy and raison d'être.

Yearly show supreme effort and raison d'etre of National Automobile Chamber of Commers.

Next, there are three rotating programs of works by the company's founding father and raison d'être, Balanchine.

Harlequinade is a comedy about a middle-aged theatrical couple (Branagh and Raison) acting Romeo and Juliet in a duff theatre company.

Except in times of extreme famine, there will be no deliveries of food, the prime commodity and raison d'tre of pure relief the world over.

If the alliance does not accomplish its task, the mutual commitments of its 28 member-states would be undermined and the alliance would lose its moral foundation and raison d'être.

He said the candidates he supported "stressed the ability to manage government, the efficiency and the effectiveness of government, without sacrificing the goal and the purpose and the raison d'être of government".

The candidates he backed, he said, "stressed the ability to manage government, the efficiency and the effectiveness of government, without sacrificing the goal and the purpose and the raison d'être of government.

Russian classical musicians now find themselves in the same economic frying pan as their colleagues the world over, and the social, political and emotional raison d'être for the modern music they used to play has more or less vanished.

Early on, the #ShoutYourAbortion campaign had its influential proponent and its raison d'être Lindy West and the prospect of Planned Parenthood being defunded but not much of an offline presence.

Early on, the #ShoutYourAbortion campaign had its influential proponent and its raison d'être — Lindy West and the prospect of Planned Parenthood being defunded — but not much of an offline presence.