raison d'etre

The center should be the raison d'etre of the drawing.

She was the star of the production, and its raison d'etre.

But is the raison d'etre of our society to have people wake up?

They never threatened to become the film's primary raison d'etre.

But in the end, I think the artifacts support the raison d'etre.

The raison d'etre of the Big 6 was to audit public companies.

The raison d'etre was to get to the heart of Greenwich.

The raison d'etre of it all, bottom line, was the art.

In this way we may remove the raison d'etre of terrorism.

It came from Washington bureaucrats, whose raison d'etre is creating new programs.

There was a raison d'etre for the French mind, and fashion had little to do with it.

"They build a raison d'etre to communicate each particular piece."

In fact, a couple of them lost entirely their raison d'etre and were closed down completely.

The extension was therefore seen as having lost some of its original raison d'etre.

Instead the raison d'etre is that she needs to "pay the rent".

But to my eyes the raison d'etre of this administration appears to be spin.

That circuitry had a life, a raison d'etre all its own.

A vacation, by contrast, has as its raison d'etre having fun.

But meanwhile the notion has lost much of its definition and raison d'etre.

But even before this month the raison d'etre of the movement was undergoing challenge.

The Administration's political challenge, still, is to find definition and a clear raison d'etre for a second term.

It was a good time, the perfect expression of their collective raison d'etre.

The raison d'etre of a baseball bat is to hit balls.

Once again, the book's raison d'etre comes into question.

Boring to have food be the raison d'etre rather than the backdrop to an evening.