Raison

He had but one remark to make, however wild might be the assertions advanced from the English side of the table, '_Vous avez raison, monsieur, vous avez parfait-e-ment raison_!' ❋ Unknown (1881)

What is the reason for the use of the term "raison d'etre" ❋ Unknown (2011)

But I discovered in the French word raison d'être. ❋ John Maeda (2008)

It will be understood that I sympathise with their main raison d’être: getting the UK out of the EU. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It was a virtual synonym for the sixteenth-century term raison d’État and an updating of that tenet of international relations that had been ratified by the Peace of Westphalia and reaffirmed by the Congress of Vienna: what happened inside any state—the repression, say, of a national minority—was no business of any other state. ❋ Strobe Talbott (2008)

Although Mydoom’s main raison d’etre is to to attack and overload SCO, it also opens up a backdoor to infected computers by planting a new SHIMGAPI. DLL file to system32 directory and launching it as a child process of EXPLORER. EXE. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"The service of authority demands a persevering presence, able to enliven and take initiative, to recall the raison d'être of consecrated life, to help the persons entrusted to you to correspond with ever-renewed fidelity to the call of the Spirit".28 ❋ Papabear (2008)

The two candidates despise, cannot stand, each other; still, for the sake of higher collective interests, for what the French call raison d'état, they have to go through a marriage ceremony regardless and in spite of their personal feelings and different aspirations. ❋ Al-Azm, Sadik J. (2000)

Whereas today the state is no more than the sum of its inhabitants, de Benoist imagines a state that would be more than such a sum, and this "more" is called the raison d'état and is the basis for what he calls the "transcendence of the principle of authority." ❋ Sheehan, Thomas (1980)

Machiavelli did not originate nor did he make much use of the notion of raison d'état. ❋ Berlin, Isaiah (1971)

If you have studied a foreign language, you know that our understandings of the world come with the language we speak, which is why English is full of words derived from other sources which better explain certain concepts such as raison d'etre or entr 'acte. ❋ David (2007)

After flailing around with no direction for a few years, PJM finally has some kind of raison d'etre w/ the tea party coverage. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

The effect of the abuse was to turn policy sometimes into an arid kind of raison d'état. ❋ HERBERT BUTTERFIELD (1968)

And his wife said, "'Deed, now, I wouldn't won'er meself if the raison was his Riverence' ud think bad of usin 'his Latin words for anythin' else on'y prayers and such. ❋ Jane Barlow (1887)

Media professionals whose entire raison d'etre is the persecution of the female and physically imperfect have also acknowledged what Susie Orbach and, up to a point, Nigella Lawson, have been trying to tell them for years: skinny is not always better. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Science, qua science, must do this; its very raison d'être is to replace the supernatural by the natural, the unknown by the known, fable by fact, and while it is engaged upon this task it must be provisionally atheistic or cease to be itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Science, qua science, must do this; its very raison d'être is to replace the supernatural by the natural, the unknown by the known, fable by fact, and while it is engaged upon this task it must be provisionally atheistic or cease to be itself." (emphasis mine) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dude 1: WOW! You saw that girls body!? Dude 2: Are you [kiddin'] me? [Im'a] be [raisoning] her all night! Dude 1: Fo sho! ❋ Doodlez8 (2010)

[Damn son] I hope that [raison] gets [in my pants] ❋ Matt Ball Sak (2011)

"John lost his girlfriend, and [aswell] his future lost his raison d'etre. They found the body that [afternoon] when the school called to report his [absence]." ❋ Fnar (2005)

"[Yo] did you see [that chick]? [Yea] she was serving raisons!" ❋ John Scan... (2006)

Jason: [So Bob] how's the new job? Bob: I love it bro, I've finally found my [Raison D'etre]. Jason: What the fuck are talking about, your [raison] tree? Dude you're such a loser. Why the hell would do you use words that nobody else knows? ❋ Toastedsandwichlover (2006)

Queef really liked his women. He definitely had [ze] raison de [quack] quack. "Do you have ze 'raison de quack quack'?", she asked, pulling down his [zip]. ❋ Michael M. Cooper (2006)