Sirtris' raison d'etre was to create more potent versions that could combat myriad diseases of aging.
The raison d'etre of the Congress, they believe, is loyalty to the Gandhi family.
If things go on like this, they could lose a large piece of their political raison d'etre.
Meanwhile, the military, which has been training its million men to fight South Koreans, may find itself losing its raison d'etre.
That's the whole business model, the very raison d'etre of Google Glass.
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" Iraq and Iran will continue to be ostracized by a Secretary who says "their raison d'etre is to destroy the international system.
Analyst Aditya Nigam believes his political party will be "resolutely an anti-party", where the pursuit of power doesn't become its only raison d'etre.
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He said he hoped future generations would "say with pride 'Ich bin ein Europaer', 'Je suis fier d'etre Europeen', 'I'm proud to be European'".
That's because an entrepreneur's raison d'etre is his business.
After a brief stop at the bank, he leads us to the edge of a vast, weed-choked parcel that for 100 years was home to a plate glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre.
Certainly there is the dead weight of the prison bureaucracy, a Kafkaesque interleaving of public service boondoggling and private sector lobbying, whose raison d'etre is not the reduction of the prison population but its increase.
Indeed, it was the highly successful merger of Bill Casey's Wall Street and national security experiences that largely gave birth to the field of International Economic Security--the overarching theme of the Casey Institute's work program and raison d'etre.
They had an important political raison d'etre as well, however, bringing together representatives from all the various independent city-states that at that time made up the Greek world, states that more often than not were at war with each other.
Such was the raison d'etre for Project Grey Goose, a private sector initiative aimed at determining whether the cyber war conducted against Internet infrastructure in the Republic of Georgia was a product of Russian government intervention or initiated by patriotic hackers on their behalf.
Things have been further complicated by management changes at the Times which have resulted in the Times hiring a number of editors - including several from the Washington Post - and reporters with a very different political orientation than the rock-ribbed conservatism that has been that paper's hallmark, and its raison d'etre.
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