Sentences with phrase «own raison»

At the time, many investors forgot why the upstream and downstream segments of the industry were ever united, threatening the raison d'etre of Big Oil.

Psychiatrist Dr. Charles Raison told CNN that meditating for even five minutes a day can lead to major benefits.

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

As it is, the city's original raison d'être, an aluminum smelter, is being modernized by owner Rio Tinto Alcan.

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.»

A mission statement is not something you just slap on your site, it is your company's raison d'etre.

The European Union is facing the problems that were always certain to arise because its raison d'etre was an aggregation of ambitions that it was never going to be possible to cause all western and central Europe to embrace.

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.

He says that he plans to explain the company's raison d'être to the FDA.

But it's looking likely the rocket ship will stall in 2017, unless makers of the pricey software can come up with a raison d'etre — and soon.

John Manley, who was Jean Chrétien's industry minister when the talks got started, objects to any idea that the document's raison d'être is cosmetic — simply a welcome mat for trade.

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.

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.

So you sincerely believe customers are your company's raison d'etre.

The raison d'être of any product should be delighting the customer.

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

Google's relevance - based search algorithms eventually resonated more strongly with users, plunging Yahoo toward irrelevance as its raison d'être dwindled.

That is, in fact, its whole raison d'être — a high - stakes game of musical chairs in which family members and executive are scrambling for a place in 93 - year - old Sumner Redstone's estate plan.

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

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Of course, writes Crupi, «Viacom's entire raison d'être boils down to street cred, which is a somewhat outdated way of saying that the company lives or dies on its ability to scout and sign digital natives like Liza Koshy, whose primary YouTube channel boasts 14.3 million subscribers.

We began with his criticism of model - driven investing, our raison d'être for the latest interview, before getting off track.

The official description of the COMEX market's raison d'être by CME group states, «Gold futures are hedging tools for commercial producers and users of gold.»

Swashbuckling Attorney Bill Singer of brokeandbroker.com, asks FINRA, the brokerage regulators, for a meeting to discuss regulatory reforms, his raison d'etre.

There were still, of course, the financial stability goals that were the original raison d'être of most central banks.

Infrastructure also tends to create its own logic and raison d'être — its own variation of «if you build it they will come.»

Carrot breads, sourdough and cinnamon - raison loaves and chocolate chip and peanut butter snicker - doodle cookies entice customers from behind glass shelves.

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?

It doesn't intend to dismantle the opponent's position, except insofar as the opponent's raison d'être is enmity.

These are concerns that go to the heart of the raison d'etre of this journal and its publisher, the Institute on Religion and Public Life.

Yet what is that raison d'être for a society precisely as a society and not just an assembly of similarly constituted actual occasions?

This seems to be the raison d'être of the most dramatic miraculous encounters — as a way for non - Christians to be alerted to the reality of a living and active God.

Given the present, God not only promises, he calls; «man» not only hopes, he plans 43 Here is the raison d'etre for Moltmann's political theology: the pro-missio (promise) of the Kingdom becomes the clarion call for a missio (mission) of love.

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.

It is given its raison d'etre by living the Prayer of the Church both in the Sacramental life and in the obligation to pray the Divine Office.

When your whole raison d'etre is based on fantasy and myth, what else is there to do?

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).

In turn, the ecumenical movement discovered mission as its raison d'etre.

Outrage is its object, its raison d'être, stupid, self - destructive, and a menace to society.

I am a spiritual person not religious, but in defense of Raison I must state the a black church is not something that was choosen by black people.

Despite the camouflage of speciously scientific terminology, the real raison d'être of «creation science» apologetics is the defense of the fundamentalist interpretation of Genesis.

Yet it also remained anchored within the raison d'être of Christian theology by not losing sight of its central topic of study and object of worship: Jesus Christ and his global mission in and through the Church.

Wheat and wine achieve their ultimate raison d'être in the eucharistic chalice.»

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.

They insisted that God works in history, and works through a community dedicated to his purpose, a «people of God» or divine commonwealth, Israel was intended to be such a people; that was its raison d'étre.

For it remains the indispensable bearer of the fullness of God's promise and the Good News of the divine self - gift to the world If it is often unfaithful to the substance of its own raison d'être.