Sentences with 'raison'
Example sentences and phrases with the word raison and other words derived from it.
• « Arbitrary" power was not the point: the power exercised by the monarch was supposed to be for the good of the realm - this was known as raison d'état, right or raison d'état. »
• « The UN Security Council was authorised to deploy military force when necessary, but its raison d'être was to prevent war being used as a tool for political aggrandisement. »