Sentence examples for has its raison from inspiring English sources

So it is in the perception of objects of intellect theorems, namely that the internal sense of beauty has its raison d'etre, and it is by resembling theorems in point of uniformity that other objects, including material objects, are beautiful.

"That's put pressure on overnight lending rates and is in itself creating a liquidity crunch as the mantra "cash is king" has its raison d'etre confirmed".

Even if its contents can derive from intuition, philosophy has its raison d'être when intuition takes the form of conceptual knowledge".

In a curtain speech before the program the company's ballet master in chief, Peter Martins, succinctly and accurately reminded the audience that, while City Ballet might have its raison d'être in the unmatched quantities of choreography it dances by Balanchine and Robbins, it also presents more new choreography than any other company.

"We want to drive awareness of mobile and have it have its own raison d'être," said Jill Braff, executive vice president for digital commerce at HSN. HSN, formerly known as the Home Shopping Network, will start mobile sales at midday on Thanksgiving and sprinkle them throughout high-traffic store-shopping times on Thursday and Friday.

"If a line doesn't have its own raison d'etre and identifiable signature, it isn't working.

"There's nothing worse than someone telling you how great Channel 4 was," said one TV producer who asked to remain nameless this week, "but the bottom line is that it has lost its raison d'etre.

Certainly, he thinks that C4 has lost its raison d'être: "It was supposed to be for alternative voices.

It is Nasdaq that, as constituted, has lost its raison d'tre.

Worried that our adversaries are all melting away and the Pentagon has lost its raison d'être?

As another commentator put it, the Church had explained its raison d'être in the schema "De Ecclesia," and Schema 13 was intended to define its agir, or mode of action.