Etre in a sentence

All the raison d’etre of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is to slaughter as many Jews as possible, and they don’t have any political aspirations.

But apart from the usual gamesmanship, your Eyewitness hopes this LGE – in the midst of our oil-fuelled development trajectory – will at long last spur movement towards the promised raison d’etre of local government: empowering the people!

Islamic Jihad’s raison d’etre is a holy war against not only Israel but also the Jews, who are seen as an eternal enemy of the Muslims.

More importantly to reap the benefits of monopoly profits in perpetuity thereby frustrating the raison d’etre of patents namely balancing the concerns of inventors with those of the public.

The company is an affiliate of ElevateBio, whose raison d’etre is to leverage its cell and gene therapy manufacturing capabilities into ownership interests of companies such as AlloVir – a sort of hedge fund hotel for biotechs.

It has been over a century since the launch of the Third Communist International, however, its raison d’etre is just as relevant today as it was then.

Like I’d imagine a teenage boy might feel when he’s just discovered what feels like his raison d’etre but has no idea what to do about it.

This is, that the PNC throughout its entire history, has always embraced rigged elections and authoritarian tactics as integral dimensions of their raison d’ etre.

With the current likelihood of Concorde ever flying again being ‘near zero’, Ben said the group’s ‘raison d'etre’ was now focused on preserving all Concordes globally ‘for future generations to understand what we once had’.

After all, that was the raison d’etre for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association bringing him back for a fifth time: to add some buzz to a self-congratulatory, overlong three-hour telecast.

But perhaps more important, if the system has been functioning literally without the FCC, does it mean we no longer need the commission or its raison d'etre is being deliberately subverted?

Dangers: 3. Raison D’Etre probably should have won on debut but was left with no excuses when beaten at $1.90 at Kensington back in April.

If members become “illiberal,” the EU loses its raison d’etre.

The body has long outlived its usefulness as they have reduced themselves to extortionists of suspected cyber criminals which is a negation of the raison d’etre for setting them up in the first place.

The humble umbrella is such joyful thing – even if their raison d’etre is less so.

The other sees him as a destructive force, a real existential threat to Israel’s future and original raison d’etre.

With her crocheted dress and Commando slip, she wore an unnamed brand’s “beautiful” fishnets that were uncomfortable enough to distract her through the entire event — a situation antithetical to her sartorial beliefs and her company’s raison d’etre.

From the 20th to the 21st century, universities found their raison d’etre in training competent people who could contribute to economic development.

Today, all five are tech companies, and their raison d’etre is user data.

While power is hardly his raison d’etre, the problem was not volume – which does matter in a shed this size and this lifeless – but that the sound had no body to it.