Sentence examples for with a raison from inspiring English sources
Nazism is here depicted as an ersatz religion, supplying its devotees with a raison d'être for their crimes, and its executioners with a daily, alcohol-blurred rationale for acts of killing.
That came to an end in 2011 and Screen Yorkshire – then "three people and a pot plant," says Joynson – rebuilt itself with a new raison d'être: not just promoting the region as a potential location, but investing in productions.
Although News Corporation plays down the impact of phone hacking on its broader corporate strategy, it is evident that the media conglomerate has emerged a transformed company with a different raison d'être, one less driven by Rupert Murdoch's whims and no longer the acquisition-heavy dealmaker it once was.
The state of obsession provides me with a mission of sorts, a raison d'être that also staves off depression.
My problem with it is that it lacks a raison d'être, especially given the head start enjoyed by the Twitters and Facebooks of this world.
There's an agreeable sense of a town going about its everyday business with tourists just an add-on, rather than a raison d'etre.
Nearly all of our study participants spoke about the gaps in the health sector that have become a raison d'être for NGOs to plug in with their expertise and scope of work.
It was never such a raison d'être.
In a sense, unconventional art needed an unconventional criticism to give it a raison d'être.
