Sentence examples for its reason for being from inspiring English sources

The moment the bank takes its eye off economic growth, it loses its reason for being.

As mayoral aides said, once the marathon lost its power to unify, it lost its reason for being.

The menu is overlarge, and thus not everything is well cooked: more vegetables should be on offer, and when the menu drifts off into trendiness, as with the chocolate-sea salt tart, it loses its reason for being.

One reason, of course, is because it's making this argument for poetry and then also trying to explain that poetry's less about what a poem is than what it does — its reason for being.

"The first 15, 20 minutes were terrific, but it sort of lost its reason for being," he told Simon Pegg in an interview for Time Out in 2005.

The high school was founded to be on the campus; if it moves, the community says, its reason for being may be lost.

"It was thought that it had done its duty and had finished its reason for being.

In the concluding essay in The Renaissance, Pater asserted that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, and that it acknowledges neither moral standards nor utilitarian functions in its reason for being.

People will want to join if you tell what the club and its reason-for-being are all about, so prepare some fliers or posters with this information.

But by the time he came of age it had lost the empire that was its reason for being the Habsburg empire having succumbed to World War I and to Woodrow Wilson's passion for national self-determination.

But most of all, I would have been astonished that PwC's Millennials don't only demand to know the organization's purpose its reason for being but are prepared to leave the firm if that purpose doesn't align with their own values.