Sentences with phrase «raison du»

With his exhibition, Tayou asks: «la raison du plus fort est - elle toujours la meilleure?»

Not exact matches

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

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).

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.

The third largest donation went to the National Christian Foundation, whose raison d'etre has nothing to do with the culture wars.

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.

Didn't have the cacao nibs on hand so added organic raisons and flaked coconut instead.

I used a blender which didn't end up completing processing it (as expected) but they still turned out great, even though most people in my family including me dislike raisons.

It didn't give me the oatmeal raison flavor that I was expecting but the flavor was wonderful.

I also don't use currants or raisons rather I load them full of dates!

And I think that this recent gesture that they were going to resolve the conflict diplomatically, they they were going to help bring an end, has basically taken away the raison detre for the US to say «we are gonna go and do this — if negotiations with Pyongyang don't go well, then we have to go to Plan B».

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.

Tim Raison, a junior Home Office minister, went ostensibly to check on race matters but actually to ensure that Heseltine did not interfere in police matters.

Considering the whole raison d'etre of the Labour Party is to be the political representation of the Trade Union Movement [and check out the soaring power of the Trade Unions — behind the scenes — post -1945], I wonder why they didn't call themselves the Political Arm of the Trade Union Movement?!

«I don't think that the birther is the raison and d'etre for a presidential campaign.

This is not so for the great majority of Ph.D. programs, whose funding and perceived raison d'etre come from doing research.

Of course we at Next Wave, a publication whose entire raison d'être is to support the career development of early career scientists, will do what we can to implement the meeting's suggestions.

So now it feels like my raison d'être — my reason for being here anyway, and for being in science — doesn't exist anymore.

Even if there is scant scientific evidence for a procedure, does it matter if it gives someone hope and raison d'etre?

Even more, perhaps, a naturalist is inexhaustibly fascinated by biological diversity and does not view organisms merely as models or vehicles for theory but rather as the raison d'etre for biological investigation.»

What do you foresee is the raison d'être for the explosions of singles dating relationship over the Internet?

Oddly, not once is it mentioned that Dial M for Murder was shot in the dual - strip 3 - D process, so don't expect any insight into Hitchcock's creative choices as far as its raison d'être is concerned.

Just don't tell the post-Hot Wheels crowd that the Ian Fleming creation that Knight Rider most closely resembles — in its raison d'être prop, yes, but also its general level of sophistication — is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I don't see the resurgence of the sword and sandals film any time soon, so clearly the raison d'etre for remaking the Charleton Heston biblical epic, Ben Hur, is to update the iconic chariot race.

For the record, I actually liked The Amazing Spider - Man (more, even, than Spider - Man), yet I still don't understand its raison d'être (beyond the mercenary).

Of course, this requires union leaders who don't see today's rules on tenure and seniority as labor's raison d'être.

There are countless other examples which exemplify the fact that the teachers unions» raison d'être is preserving their influence, and doing so by any means necessary.

It's funny how quickly a shift in perspective can change an opinion, but then again, doing things quickly is the entire raison d'être of the sixth - generation Camaro 1LE.

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

It doesn't seem to me that this is much of a raison d'etre.

«But there's still more to be done to support female authors — both traditional and self - published — to achieve the financial rewards and recognition they deserve, and here at FicShelf our whole raison d'être is to help the very best writers to make a living from their talent.»

The raison d'etre of traditional publishing is to take risks on talent, and back their editors to do so.

I don't think curation will be their raison d'etre.

Did you know that grapes and raisons are toxic to dogs (and cats) and can cause sudden development of kidney failure and lack of urine production?

While this in itself is a bit of an overstatement (there is plenty of insightful travel journalism out there to offset the generic pap), Thompson proceeds with an accurate roundup of the elements that conspire to create bad travel writing: throw - away words like «hip,» «happening,» «sun - drenched,» «undiscovered,» and «magical»; imperative language that urges the reader to «do» this, «eat» that, «go» here; stories that depict tourism workers (taxi drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders) as «local color»; the fake narrative «raisons d'etre writers invent to justify their travels»; the untraveled writers and editors who assemble authoritative - sounding travel «roundups» from Internet research; the conflicts of interest that arise when writers fund their travels with industry - subsidized «comps»; publications running what is essentially the same story over and over again, never questioning stereotype assumptions about certain parts of the world.

Music is Reading's raison d'etre, but if you fancy something else to do one afternoon, the festival also boasts its own fun fair, cinema tents, and some weird but hilarious goings on to keep you entertained all weekend long.

Taken together, the camera and the controls make navigating Toren a hassle, and that's a shame because on the whole, it doesn't fall into the trap of locking its raison d'être behind punishing gameplay that's out of the reach of thumb - clunkers like me.

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?

[The wee animation we did that pretty sums up the gapingvoid raison d'etre etc] Gape Into The Void Episode 6 — Office Art & The...

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.

KG: I don't necessary feel I have to connect my activities as an independent curator to the fair or vice versa unless there is a raison d' etre.

Similarly, did morale plunge at BP — and mental health claims rise — after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, or at Exxon Mobil after the company was regularly cited for funding organizations whose raison d'être was to discredit state - of - the - art, peer - reviewed climate science?

Quite unlikely that I have readers in Rio Linda and Port St Lucie, but in case I do, «raison d'être» means «the most important reason or purpose for someone's existence.»

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.

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

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.»

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

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.

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.