Sentence examples for very raison from inspiring English sources

As such, the EU's very raison d'être is at issue.

The Balanchine repertory not only is at the heart of the New York City Ballet but its very raison d'etre.

That will mean more short-term projects, which could mean the R.S.C. renouncing its very raison d'être.

Even worse, a leader whose very raison d'etre is being a personal force for compromise faces two inevitable disappointments.

The difficulty with this view of reconstruction is that it seems to deny the very raison d'être of historical and comparative linguistics.

So why are universities like MIT financing these doubt mongers, who undermine the integrity of science and our very raison d'être: truth and knowledge?

Yet in a very real sense, the basic raison d'être of the Liberal party remains as steadfast as ever: to keep Labor out of office.

In a book whose marketing raisons d'etre are very clear (as a follow-up to the very popular "A Walk in the Woods," it is being "published just in time for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney," says to its flap copy), Mr. Bryson coasts too much but can still make most gratifying company.

With this majestic and thrilling maneuver, Gray shows that this performance — the song and its substance — is the very essence of the movie, its raison d'être.

It's as if the very virtues that are the writers' raison d'être are being challenged by the filmmakers, who thus incur the writers' wrath.

The moral of the story – you can't succeed unless you take risks – was felt very much part of Anderson's raison d'être.