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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_!'
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What is the reason for the use of the term "raison d'etre"
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But I discovered in the French word raison d'être.
John Maeda on his journey in design John Maeda 2008
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But I discovered in the French word raison d'être.
John Maeda on his journey in design John Maeda 2008
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But I discovered in the French word raison d'être.
John Maeda on his journey in design John Maeda 2008
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It will be understood that I sympathise with their main raison d’être: getting the UK out of the EU.
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It will be understood that I sympathise with their main raison d’être: getting the UK out of the EU.
Archive 2007-11-18 2007
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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.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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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.
E-bug attacks SCO 2004
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"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
Archive 2008-06-01 papabear 2008
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