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Example sentences for: raison

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Its raison d'être is to publish board games by unknown designers or on "niche" subjects (they have a board game depicting the struggle between Peru's government and the Sendero Luminoso).
Only five minutes to the south of Leidseplein is the museum quarter, for many visitors the raison d’être for their visit to Amsterdam.
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.
In 1917, the raison d'etre of Modern Library was to offer cheap reprints of European fiction.
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.