Sentences with phrase «raison d'etre»

He went on to say: «This movie's whole raison d'etre is that it's an adaptation of a novel about sex.

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

It's why we exist; our raison d'etre!

Lax ethics and zero to little service not only dilutes the entire industry's raison d'etre — it can only get worse as it proliferates.

Climate change has become our raison d'etre; it is our government and our foreign policy, and, with our manufacturing base and small enterprises succumbing to hard times and regulatory overload, it might even have to totter along for a while as a poor excuse for an actual economy.

While I love to read about strengths and positive emotions, I see training the brain as what gives positive psychology its raison d'etre and what gives us practitioners purposefulness.

This is my raison d'etre.

Its first raison d'etre was to guarantee a permanent presence of the overseas power, either settler population or mere trading posts, in territories inhabited by other people.

Your resume, needs a «raison d'etre» so your interviewer can justify your employment.

A custom Debian Linux distribution sits behind the whole thing, which means it's capable of web browsing and running programs as well as its gaming raison d'etre.

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

This seemed kind of mad, since being constantly alerted to messages is almost the raison d'etre of Apple Watch and, indeed, all other smartwatches.

Music has long been part of Apple's raison d'etre; Steve Jobs drew inspiration from Bob Dylan to The Beatles to Yo - Yo Ma as he shepherded through products as iconic as the iPod.

Financial security in premature death is the raison d'etre for life insurance.

Then identify the more specific «raison d'etre» or the mission for the game itself.

Assume the industry successfully establishes an XHTML - based reflowable document format based on the evolution of OEB, with an associated single - file container package with pluggable DRM, then I see no strong raison d'etre for Mobi, BBeB, or any of the other OEB - derivative eBook formats to hang around forever.

These reasons included the fact that the Inquiry Committee did consider the appropriateness of the treatment [91]; that documentation from other health care professionals post-injury is not relevant as it would not assist the Committee in assessing the appropriateness of the treatment [95 - 96]; and that the comment about the injury being a civil matter was simply one comment plucked out of committee's internal discussions and wrongly transformed into the raison d'etre for the Inquiry Committee dismissing the complaint.

But the world is changing and our raison d'etre for protection of animals must change too.

Part of the Forum's raison d'etre is to help create a community of legal pricing professionals.

International aspects which were not envisaged at the time of say the original raison d'etre of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 have led to a piecemeal combination of domestic and international law.

But of course, the raison d'etre for this keyboard is its legal - specific keys.

Our clients don't make these same choices, and that's why we lawyers appreciate (or ought to appreciate) our clients, the raison d'etre of our practice.

On behalf of taxpayers — since acting as a tax - payer watch - dog is their main raison d'etre — politicians are entitled to make political decisions on legal aid.

But that's precisely the point: the raison d'etre of a private religious institution is to enable members of a minority community to self - select in accordance with their distinct values and shared vision.

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.

And if you are a starting associate, do you fear that outsourcing may eventually jeopardize your raison d'etre at a firm.

So with the iPad's imminent release this Saturday, these are heady times for Barrett and TL since, in the words of Nathan Arizona Sr., that's TL's «whole G * d - damn raison d'etre, ain't it?»

It is the nature, even raison d'etre, of bureaucracies to bloat over time.

Fine considers himself a political prisoner, because his raison d'etre over the past several years has been exposing the alleged corruption inherent in the courts of Los Angeles County resulting from the county's practice of tacking on an additional $ 57,000 in «supplemental benefits» to the $ 178,000 state salary of Superior Court judges.

To create an effective tag line know your mission; your raison d'etre or you can't brand yourself effectively.

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?

Wrong question VP As DS notes, I didn't imply they did.I said: «Politics funded the science ter git preordained * outcomes * like that brief that was the raison d'etre of the IPCC.»

Fer a serf, the elephant in the room regardin» ethics in science is when science is driven by politics, not curiosity, and when the politics fund the science ter git predained outcomes like that brief that was the raison d'etre of the IPCC.

Your raison d'etre would disappear if you didn't have man - made warming to carry on about.

That is that environmentalism doesn't merely provide the public sector with a ruse for more sustenance in the form of taxes, it also provides them with a raison d'etre.

This is its charter, its «raison d'etre» and arguably its strength.

The Cultists can not bear the thought that their AGW God has deserted them — and hence their raison d'etre has gone too.

It's entire raison d'etre is to cast doubt on legitimate science and to create controversies where none exist, soley to benefit major industries with PR problems.

Let's take the raison d'etre of this blog site.

And EnergySage's whole raison d'etre is to bring information about competitive solar suppliers to the market.

After all, if Governments began to comply with the demands of these organisations, it would undermine their raison d'etre.

I'm sure that Scott Mandia sees this as his raison d'etre for his group throwing themselves into the political battle.

Certainly this is the entire raison d'etre of the climate rapid response team advocacy group, and the predictable result will be a resounding «F *** You» from the American public, and rightfully so.

They are a crucial element of the company's raison d'etre and vital to the Hampton Roads economy.

Take the NOMAD tiny house — its whole raison d'etre seemed to be stopping its owner from living the highly - leveraged, consumerist lifestyle.

«When I joined the American Physical Society sixty - seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood... the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence... How different it is now... the money flood has become the raison d'etre of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs... It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.

If global mean temperature measurements during the next several years continue to significantly miss the IPCC forecast this severely undercuts IPCC basis for the past 25 years and therefore the entire raison d'etre of the IPCC.

Nuclear has in fact started in the USA, although the raison d'etre was more connected to collecting enough fissile material for their military requirements rather than civil power generation.

Communication of Science Through Art: A Raison d'Etre for Interdisciplinary Collaboration I (Video On - Demand) which includes a talk on the Politics of Snow, by an artist, Diane Burko who

For a moment, think of the single - minded pursuit of dollars, political power and privileges to profligately consume and righteously ignore the requirements of practical reality as our raison d'etre.