Raison 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!

Earlier in the month, Empyrical took three medals in ’s annual judging for Principle and for apple wines La Raison Reserve and Objective.

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.

The escalation of tensions proved Isaias's depiction of Ethiopia as an existential threat which remains the raison d'être of an independent Eritrean state.

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.

Our raison d'être is to ensure a societal agreement that at least part of the media doesn't just focus on what attracts viewers and clicks, but also covers topics that commercial media doesn't deem important.

The spectacle communicated the unmistakable message that securing the defeat of Israel is now part of Turkey’s raison d’état, just as preserving the existence of the Jewish state has been part of post-war Germany’s.

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?

Carb loading is Eataly’s raison d’être.

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.

London theatre, the flagship of the UK’s £10.8bn arts sector, was hit punishingly hard by Lockdown 1; its revenue streams and its raison d’être — liveness — cut off, its infrastructure financially draining, its mostly freelance workforce hung out to dry.

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.