Sentence examples for find a raison from inspiring English sources

After losing its status as Brazil's political capital to Brasília in 1960 — and long trailing behind São Paulo, the country's business capital — Rio struggled for decades to find a raison d'être that matched the size of the city's image.

Portas said the exercise was not about "pointing fingers of blame" but the report attacked the rapacious growth of the supermarkets and warned that high streets needed to find a new raison d'etre – beyond retail – to survive.

Has the old club found a new raison d' être?

For this raison, we try to find a new solution to develop different ways of distribution and energy use.

Now I'm in dangerous territory, stopped by an officer of the law whose raison d'etre is to find a law being broken.

Being in music I found my raison d'être as a man.

After a lifetime in the business world, Judy Sennesh found her "raison d'etre" after her youngest child, assigned female at birth, came out as transgender in 2004.

"In using the case as a powerful vehicle to promote his Sense About Science campaign, Singh's crusade mobilised a dark force of UK sceptics who suddenly found their raison d'etre, shifting their attention from the fairy tales of homeopathy to the cure-all claims of chiropractors.

That was the time when I found my raison d'etre.

Five years into its existence, Blu-ray 3D may finally have found its raison d'etre.

As "Too Jewish?" was built around reminiscences of the heyday of Jewish vaudevillians like Menashe Skulnik, "Too Jewish Two!" ostensibly finds its raison d'etre in recollections of -- and reverence for -- great Jewish comics, everyone from Jack Benny and George Burns to Mickey Katz, Myron Cohen, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Alan King, Jerry Lewis and Jackie Mason.