Sentences with phrase «raison d»

When numbers are your raison d «être, you must pay the price to get those numbers.

Not exact matches

In essence, the Bank's raison d'etre has been to keep prices growing at a stable rate.

Raison says that while meditating, «Some people find it useful to have a little clock that they can put in front of them where they can just glance at it so they know [how much time] has passed.»

But the suit has been an unlikely sensation for J.Crew — a brand that customers request by name, and the raison d'être for new, dedicated Ludlow shops in Manhattan and Boston.

And it's also true that Shoppers has offered a sort of convenience store annex to its personal care raison d'être for years.

A big - tent party that existed to exercise power has lost its raison d'etre and will not get it back any time soon.

Society has been expropriated of its raison d`tre as a system for organising and promoting inter-personal and inter-institutional links with the corresponding interactions and transactions.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

That was not exactly intentional, but had everything to do with (white) disco fans simply permitting themselves to re-embrace the original raison d'etre of the whole Afro - American pop music phenomenon: good - time dancing.

For as the Christian religion emerges out of the constantinian cocoon in which, throughout most of its history, it has been so tightly enclosed, Christians find themselves relieved of the burden of assuming, as the raison d'être of their movement, custodianship of the random religious sentiments and moral codes that have clustered about the corpus Christianum.

The raison d'étre of black churches has not differed from that of churches in any age.

The interdependence of this branch of studies with others, however, is not only historically conditioned but has its raison d'être in the nature of its subject matter.

The revolution in government presaged by an activist population policy would thus seem to be based less in politics per se than in «science,» for in the final analysis it is the field of learning known as «population studies» that provides population policy with its raison d'etre.

In other words our understanding of the conclusion depends upon the extent to which the raison d'être of the creature or object has been reached.

Thank you Raison — I think we have the same goal....

Thus far, liberation theology has been firmly in the first camp and will always derive its energies and its raison d'être from transformative social praxis in a Christian context.

The third largest donation went to the National Christian Foundation, whose raison d'etre has nothing to do with the culture wars.

When religion becomes a force in government, it has lost its raison d'être.

A Church whose very raison d'être is to «go and make disciples of all nations» should, one might imagine, be a little gladder to have them.

Robespierre's address to the Commune of Paris at the convention of 1793 evidences that his Supreme Being also had this same character: «L'homme pervers se croit sans cesse environné d'un témoin puissant et terrible anquel il ne peut échapper, qui le voit et le veille, tandis que les hommes sont livrés au sommeil...» (F. A. Aulard, Le Culte de la raison et le culte de l'Être Supreme (Paris, 1892), pp. 285 f.) How can one isolate this «structure» and separate it from its biblical antecedents, when — to cite only one of the many passages — one can read in the book of Isaiah (29:15): «Woe to those who hide deep from the Lord their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, «Who sees us?

Raison's Filter Fiber © (joking about the copyright)-- bad letter combinations / words to avoid if you want to post that wonderful argument: Many, if not most are buried within other words, but I am not shooting for the perfect list, so use your imagination and add any words I have missed as a comment (no one has done this yet)-- I found some but forgot to write them down.

The virtues of the «religious» life — poverty, chastity and obedience — were the formal signs of the special life of prayer and dedication, but they had somehow ceased to be its raison d'etre.

Didn't have the cacao nibs on hand so added organic raisons and flaked coconut instead.

I reduced the standard curd recipe's sugar content ever so slightly, knowing the curd's raison d'etre was to be mixed in with a creamy yogurt that would temper the tart.

«implanted for the sake of giving rise to habits, and that, this purpose once accomplished, the instincts themselves, as such, have no raison d'être in the psychical economy, and consequently fade away».

The macabre implication is that the Republicans have become the party of the patrician class, in support of a feeble social contract that provides as little as possible to the masses, and a model for government whose raison d'être is to enable its wealthiest citizens to achieve a quality of life unattainable to the rest.

Independence has been the SNP's raison d'etre, but its primary political enemy is Scottish Labour.

Economics would lose its raison d'être.

A historical raison d'etre floated around the Indus — source of the current havoc — hasn't exactly set anyone on fire, despite the enthusiasm of Aitzaz Ahsan (The Indus Saga, 1997), better known for his role in the lawyers» movement against General Musharraf.

Their raison d'etre has become deficit reduction and they will largely stick to that regardless of the outcome.

And I think that this recent gesture that they were going to resolve the conflict diplomatically, they they were going to help bring an end, has basically taken away the raison detre for the US to say «we are gonna go and do this — if negotiations with Pyongyang don't go well, then we have to go to Plan B».

Does anyone else find irony that Thompson is trying to tell these Tea Party groups what to do, when their raison d'etre is all about not having political insiders tell them what to do.

The UK intelligence establishment has had a renaissance after the post Cold War doldrums and a new raison d'etre with the emergence of global terrorism.

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

A technical field with the explicit raison d'etre of helping people, biomedical engineering, arose in the past century as a partnership among medical researchers, clinicians, physical scientists, and engineers and has evolved into a separate discipline now taught at engineering schools across the country.

Like some of the bones that are its raison d'être, forensic science has a great deal of history.

Although its raison d'être remains elusive, the gene appears to play an important role in DNA repair: Mice lacking the protein Brca1 have trouble fixing DNA damage induced by radiation, for instance, and the protein clumps in the nucleus at sites where DNA is broken.

Supporting and building a national stem cell and regenerative medicine research network has been the raison d'être of the Stem Cell Network (SCN) since its inception in 2001.

Once the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA had decided to embark on this adventure together to explore Saturn, its moon Titan and the Saturnian System, they threw open to the scientific community the opportunity to provide the scientific instruments which are of course the raison d'être for the mission.

It would seem that Erdem's raison d'être is to create romantic, intricately embroidered evening dresses for the coolest girls in the world.

«Internally we call this generation of brands «Naturals 2.0» because, unlike the original natural beauty brands from the 1970s and 1980s, they have beautiful formulas — texture, scent and efficacy, elegant packaging and a real raison d'être,» says Shashi Batra, founder of Credo, a Sephora - like company that curates clean beauty products from around the world.

The only problem with this is that it is a relatively narrow perspective, which contradicts fashion's ultimate raison d'être — to innovate, no matter what — and has resulted in a system that's increasingly stuck on repeat.

I mean, they will get it dirty at some point, because getting things dirty seems to be their raison d'etre at the moment, but when it happens I won't have to feel guilty about it — the advantage of a cute - but - cheap coat.

I love all of these outfits too, and especially that Black Sweater (which has an incredible neckline and sleeves) still has a raison d'etre!

Although feigning a cliff - hanger, the finale (1.13, «Decisions») definitively addresses the show's raison d'être, Dawson's slow awakening to Joey's crush on him — if you've never seen an episode, you'll feel any itch to sample the series fully scratched by a viewing of these DVDs.

If you'd like to know more about Aring, here's a powerful explanation of its raison d'être from its website:

, or My Brother's Name, or, frankly, Fatih Akin's simplistic and overrated film about Nazi violence against Turks in contemporary Germany, Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade), Oskar Roehler's tired satire about the wealthy, Herrliche Zeiten (Subs), or Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Overkill, a Berlin film about a reckless female teenager that could have easily been made in the 1990s during the city's famous raving decade but that today lacks any raison d'être.

Oddly, not once is it mentioned that Dial M for Murder was shot in the dual - strip 3 - D process, so don't expect any insight into Hitchcock's creative choices as far as its raison d'être is concerned.

Lines that ought to have inspired the names of college bands: «Yodas «n» Shit,» «Whole Goddamned Raison d'Etre,» «Something Wrong with My Semen,» «Jason, Caleb or Tab,» «Crapping You Negative,» «Just Circular»

The spectacular (especially in 3 - D) epic battle which ensues up and down the streets of San Francisco, on the Golden Gate Bridge and below in the Bay is the raison d'etre of Monsters vs. Aliens, a CGI - driven animated adventure that's all about the wow factor.