Sentences with phrase «whose raison»

1) For a profession whose raison d'être is to provide access to justice by meeting the public's legal needs, the fact that the status quo has left and continues to leave significant legal needs unmet in Ontario is another (perhaps the most important) driver of the need for change;

Now there is a better way: CoolGov, a blog whose raison d'être is finding cool stuff available from the feds.

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?

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?

To achieve a marked improvement in fuel economy in a car whose raison d'etre is good fuel economy is a stunning outcome...

For a machine whose raison d'être stands or falls on a purely emotional purchase decision — after all, a Golf can be had for less with the same powertrain choices — the Beetle convertible's surprisingly practical.

Then there is a memo put out by «Third Way,» allegedly a centrist outfit whose raison d'être is providing solutions neither left nor right, but moderate.

In the Public Interest — a perfect partner for AFT — is a project of The Partnership for Working Families (PWF), which is an ACORN - like group that hates anything capitalist and is a card - carrying member of the «Occupy Wall Street» movement, whose raison d'être is to bash «one percenters.»

Even aside from your MythBusters and your How It's Made, there are now entire channels whose raison d'être is to let people watch planets spinning and nebulas... nebulizing, all in high definition at four in the morning.

The macabre implication is that the Republicans have become the party of the patrician class, in support of a feeble social contract that provides as little as possible to the masses, and a model for government whose raison d'être is to enable its wealthiest citizens to achieve a quality of life unattainable to the rest.

That may be the case NY as they too are money grabbing business types whose raison d'etre is to put more dollars in their bank account.

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

Not exact matches

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.

Technology is the objective side of human action whose origin and raison d'etre is found in the subjective element: the worker himself.

A Church whose very raison d'être is to «go and make disciples of all nations» should, one might imagine, be a little gladder to have them.

Robespierre's address to the Commune of Paris at the convention of 1793 evidences that his Supreme Being also had this same character: «L'homme pervers se croit sans cesse environné d'un témoin puissant et terrible anquel il ne peut échapper, qui le voit et le veille, tandis que les hommes sont livrés au sommeil...» (F. A. Aulard, Le Culte de la raison et le culte de l'Être Supreme (Paris, 1892), pp. 285 f.) How can one isolate this «structure» and separate it from its biblical antecedents, when — to cite only one of the many passages — one can read in the book of Isaiah (29:15): «Woe to those who hide deep from the Lord their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, «Who sees us?

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.

As Brashear's displays of valiant will are the film's raison d'etre, everyone around him tends to showcase his greatness and / or learn by his example, from Pappy to Sunday to fellow diving student Snowhill (Michael Rapaport), whose life Brashear saves.

Imagine the derision you would have faced if, say 25 years ago, you had dared predict that the fate, nay, the very existence, of the once - quintessential luxury sedan powertrain was in the hands of a South Korean automaker whose very raison d'etre is serving the proletariat?

«La Biennale must present itself as a place whose method — and almost raison d'être — is dedicated to an open dialogue between artists, and between artists and the public.»

The loss of a «beyond» forecloses on the spatial and temporal possibility of anything other than «now» and aligns processes of meaning production with an austere perspective — one whose reproducibility is its own raison d'être and main criteria for judgment.