The search for a unitary raison d'être for TEs is parochial when viewed from an MLS standpoint.
But save room for the raison d'être: the gelati and the sorbetti.
SIX MONTHS ago, political pundits were preparing obituaries for the Parti Québécois (PQ) and even for its raison d'être, the peaceful democratic secession of Quebec from Canada.
For this raison, we try to find a new solution to develop different ways of distribution and energy use.
Today, MySpace is searching for its raison d'etre while IGN treks along as an unstoppable force in its sphere.
Thus, we concentrate on the theoretical aspects rather than applications of the Poisson-Tweedie mixtures and rely on the above-quoted papers for the raison d'être.
Given the staggering defeats that NOM has suffered in the past year, a search for a new raison d'être is imperative for their organization to survive.
Some chefs might be motivated by creating the world's largest burger or the best tasting burger, but for these chefs, engineering something worth taking out a loan for is their raison d'être.
I am rather more worried about his tin ear for Slovak concerns, and what seems to me to be an over-fondness for raison d'État in dealing with Russia and China.
This is just such a night and the capacity to share his excitement becomes a moral test for Raison's character, who appears to be his new girlfriend.
The rapine and massacre of the Thirty Years' War (1618 48) yielded to wars waged for raison d'état, to aggrandize the interests of the ruler and through him the state.
