Sentences with phrase «founding raison»

You'll hear it repeated a lot by both disillusioned Labour and Tory MPs, and it provides a convenient founding raison d'etre.

Not exact matches

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.»

Philanthropist and businessman Joseph Rotman (of the Rotman School of Management) is the institute's founding chair, and forging ties between scientists, government and business is one of its official raisons d'etre.

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.

Technology is the objective side of human action whose origin and raison d'etre is found in the subjective element: the worker himself.

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.

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.

This sort of work is part of the Lancer Ralliart's raison d'etre, and it shows it by losing most of that uncomfortable character we found on the congested streets of the city.

And though I still don't think a convertible top should begin at chest height, I found the Evoque Convertible's raison d'etre.

This declaration, the last formal statement the artist made before his premature death the following year, provides a fitting epitaph for Judd's artistic career, striving as he did to find a new, more rigorous, raison d'etre for artistic endeavor in the twentieth century.

But while the horizon line may always appear in such images, it is rare to find cases in which it is a work's explicit focus, the photo's raison d'être.

It rather finds the ultimate meaning of existence or raison d'être, as a situational artwork and its concept derived from a consideration of the place.

You get meaty posts on a variety of issues from distinctive voices, we still have a coherent raison d'etre, and you're not in thrall to one voice that may eventually start banging on about something that you don't find very interesting.

Now there is a better way: CoolGov, a blog whose raison d'être is finding cool stuff available from the feds.