Sentence examples for own raison from inspiring English sources

I am afraid however, that all this paperwork suffocates its own raison d'être.

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

By granting harmful companies legitimacy, the cultural sector undermines its own raison d'etre: to enrich society, rather than damage it.

We give lip service to the need to leave the planet to our children, but we shy from a deeper engagement with our own raison d'être.

Surely, it should be clear by now, in this third week: the occupation is its own demand, its own raison d'être.

For a country that has bound up its own raison d'être with the EU, the exit of the third largest nation would be a terrible blow.

Still, she has found her own highway raison d'être: she badly wants to see an accident.

"I'm getting fit to run". I may have thought I was being clever, but for me and many others, running has its own inherent raison d'être.

Peyton's exquisite touch gives each its own juicy raison d'etre, but they lack the down-to-earth worldliness that makes the other pictures sizzle.

Making information accessible takes on the established makers and publishers of media, whose raison d'être is to own and distribute content.

Past attempts to estimate timber resources in private native forests have been limited by lack of inventory data and long-term monitoring programs in contrast to most state owned native forests in Australia (MbaC 2003; Raison 2006; Ngugi et al. 2015).