Sentences with phrase «primary raison»

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

The forcus of our DPI technology turned to the task of network - based threat detection as its primary raison d'être, with customer profiling being an opt - in service by which users could obtain the security service in exchange for targeted ads.

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.

Based on his 2008 Pulitzer Prize - winning work of the same name, August: Osage County takes Tolstoy's oft - quoted opening line of Anna Karenina — «each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way» — as its primary raison d'être and spends a vitriolic two hours (one hour less than the play) showing us just how unhappy its central characters — members of the Oklahoma Weston clan — can be.

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Of course, writes Crupi, «Viacom's entire raison d'être boils down to street cred, which is a somewhat outdated way of saying that the company lives or dies on its ability to scout and sign digital natives like Liza Koshy, whose primary YouTube channel boasts 14.3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

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

Why would a newspaper that caters to big business and corporate interests defend a class action firm whose raison d'etre was to sue big corporations (WSJ's primary constituents) for securities violations?