| Capacity building, from institutions to trained personnel, must be the raison d'etre of UNESCO's activities in freshwater. |
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| Many people assert that the milk quotas have lost their economic raison d'etre. |
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| After all, you are our raison d'etre, so it's a pleasure to be able to report to you directly. |
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| Other negative concerns focused on American appeasement as the Act's raison d'etre, and the justice system's slow-spinning wheels. |
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| Partial reforms are therefore the current raison d'etre of the party's brains trust. |
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| However, an industry and union organisation whose raison d'etre is the pursuit of democratic ideals should not become complacent over issues such as these. |
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| Those directly involved in, or affected by, the current system of language training in the Public Service feel that present arrangements have lost their raison d'etre. |
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| Had the Committee not overlooked this aspect of its raison d'etre it would not have excluded a consideration of the results of a poll Mr. Justice Bienvenue's counsel sought to introduce. |
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| There were voices arguing that NATO had lost its raison d'etre at least in part, simply because the threat that had caused the alliance to come into being in the first place had vanished. |
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| Academic institutions tend not to think in terms of a business model, but nonetheless research is a raison d'etre for creating these facilities and research grants are essential to carrying out research. |
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| A movement driven by grassroots activism has given rise to a global Fair Trade bureaucracy that, at times, appears to have forgotten its simple yet powerful raison d'etre. |
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| To encourage the development of the business sector the Community already has in place a wide variety of instruments, each with its own raison d'etre, procedures and legal basis. |
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| The writing of the news for dramatic effect is only one of the ways in which TV's principal raison d'etre influences the preparation and presentation of news broadcasts. |
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| In past reports, we had identified our raison d'etre as providing individual Canadians and respondents with a hearing and adjudication process that is open and is followed by timely and well-reasoned decisions. |
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| A redefinition of a company's raison d'etre from the customer's point of view can be the first step in spreading an organization-wide consciousness of marketing. |
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| However the raison d'etre of True Wales is that Wales should only be taking orders from London-based politicians. |
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| Naturally, there is a plethora of illiterate cowpokes whose raison d'etre seems to be prejudice and anti-racial activities. |
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| These raison d'etre and this evolution are not merely the achievement of men's conscious activity but are the unintentional results of their social activity. |
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| Raison d'Etre, a Sweden-based spa development company, has opened the Egnathia Spa in Puglia, Italy. |
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