Examples of use of Raison
1. He bumped up the Palestinian cause as his raison d‘etre.
2. The work of painting had become his raison d‘ętre.
3. That is what they do; that is their raison d‘etre.
4. "That became, in effect, his raison d‘etre," the son recalled.
5. GTC RE has no raison d‘etre as an independent entity, Psagot goes on to explain.