Sentences with phrase «new raison»

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.

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Since it's not a new console but a refresh of an existing one, designed to live squarely in the Xbox One - verse of current - gen content, it's raison d'être can be summed as follows: graphics, graphics, graphics.

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.

But an old listing for the program lays out its raison d'être: «Any of you ladies out there just start seeing someone new and wondering what the size of there [sic] member is?

As a child in New England in the 50's and 60's, playing in nature was my raison d'etre.

Even though Amazon invited the NY Times to the stage to help pump up the volume, newspapers are not the primary raison d'être of the new Kindle.

With that five - letter word doubling as its raison d'être, the big question is: does Sport succeed in forging a new path for the series?

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.

In 1965 Donald Judd wrote Specific Objects, an early raison d'être for what he categorized as the «the new three - dimensional work» that we now refer to broadly as minimalism.

If action painting is dying for a raison d'être, Blizard injected the genre with new narrative possibilities.

Companies have it built into their very reason for being (raison d'etre, if I remember my high school French correctly) to be always in pursuit of new markets, new clients, new customers, new products.

*... To refresh the raison d'être of the EPA & UN...... To move environmentalism from the fringes to the center of social concern...... To justify increased media coverage of environmental issues...... To give enviro - groups a powerful fund - raising and consciousness - raising tool...... and allow them access to the levers of national and international power...... To give activist & green parties a vote - getting wedge issue...... and a case - study justification for their habitual «hammer» (increased regulation and taxation)...... To provide at - a-loss «engagé / enragé» types with a new stick with which to bash the beastly bourgeoise...... To transfer wealth from the West to the South...... To fund alternative energy developers and researchers...

Not every case has a crisis at its core, but each one has its own raison d'être that by its very existence causes stress for the client, whether it's someone buying a new house or a firm buying a new company or a class of plaintiffs wanting to sue someone for a real or perceived wrong.

The key feature of KitKat, its primary raison d'etre, is to make new versions of Android accessible to lower - memory phones.

However, in The New Mind - Body Science of Depression, Vladimir Maletic and Charles Raison claim that we oversimplify major depression by looking at it as a discrete illness.

Ultimately, that's the raison d'etre for color in the house: to breathe new life into what once was dated.