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Example sentences for: raison

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In a subcategory called “Extreme, outrageous and offensive calls,” the authors refer to “a new genre of phone-ins [in the US] whose whole raison d'être is for the presenter to pour abuse on those who call.”
It's apparent from the accounts that the other major area of alleged Clinton dissembling Starr has in mind is his original raison d'^tre , Whitewater, both in connection with Clinton's testimony at the Arkansas trial of the McDougals and Jim Guy Tucker, and in the president's apparent involvement in the channeling of funds to Webster Hubbell after the latter's conviction.
The raison d’être of all the development is a long but not especially attractive sandy beach, which stretches undisturbed for some 10 km (6 miles).
Inside eukaryotic cells there is a massive protein complex called the proteasome whose raison d'être is to remove unnecessary proteins by breaking them down into short peptides.
Further north is Monnickendam, once a large fishing port on the Zuider Zee which lost its raison d’être when the Afsluitdijk was completed in 1932.