Sentence examples for had no raison from inspiring English sources

It didn't, of course, and councils suddenly had no raison d'etre.

Here was a demonstration of "collective insanity"; the paintings had "no raison d'être as works of art".

Without a transaction at the end of the line, advertising has no raison d'être.

In any case, human beings, through their own freedom, play a role in actualizing possibilities of the Divine Infinity that otherwise would have no raison d'être, paradise and hell being the most salient examples.

Ellison actually immediately rehired Mark Hurd, in a move that demonstrates why golden parachutes have no raison d'être.

A libertarian might say my whole article misses the point that without corporations, Detroit has no raison d'etre, and may as well be completely razed.

When you have no raison d'etre except the profit motive, the delusion that you are doing something noble can often be asserted by upholding, to great fanfare, some trivial principle that no one in his right mind could possibly care about.

The reason for the reduction in size of the Comitium was the construction of the Saepta, in consequence of which it ceased to have any raison d'être.

The hypothesis developed was that the PLC concept had some "raison d'être" only if it was capable of explaining sales behavior better than a chance model could.

They each had a raison d'être.

Yet far from being a "technical" triumph, the claustrophobic aesthetic that Nemes employs has a powerful moral raison d'etre, seemingly born out of a desire to address a subject that arguably has no place in dramatic cinema.