What is "raison"

Usage examples of "raison".

The New Allegiance, as they call themselves, will deliver an antivirus that would neutralize the threat of the Raison Strain.

You gave us the Raison Strain, and then you inadvertently gave us the antivirus, both sides of this most useful weapon.

Et soit que ces hommes sentissent en lui quelque chose de divin, soit pour tout autre raison, ils le laisserent aller.

Barizel les raisons qui me font rompre un mariage que je desirais ardemment.

Ils jugeaient la conduite du saint selon les apparences et avec les seules lumieres de la raison.

Mais vous avez raison, il y a temps pour le plaisir et temps pour les affaires serieuses .

Mais si moi aussi je suis un homme de coeur, je suis en meme temps un homme de raison.

Pour cette raison sans doute, je desespere de rendre tres sensible, par le seul moyen du discours, le plaisir que procurent les chevaux de bois.

This is made to read: 'Qui, comme de raison, avait saintement forme le projet d'allier les interets du ciel aux oeuvres de ce monde.

Since the raison d'etre of Maganos was the education and training of the bondchildren liberated from Kezdet, Gill found this directive rather difficult to follow, but with Judit's help he managed to keep the Linyaari occupied for some time in childfree areas of the base.

It developed collaterally with the science-fiction boom but independent of the sf field-in fact, apparently largely ignorant of most of the science fiction concerning its very raison d'etre-out of the same historical evolutionary forces that produced the sf boom.

Accordingly, in the Federated Commonwealths the institution of slavery was faced with a challenge to its very raison d'tre unlike any it had known in the Old World.

Just one lousy rat could give the whole Club a legit raison, an explicable reason for congregating underground all of them are a bit uneasy about liking to congregate underground for no good or clear reason.

He's the enemy of those Stalinist deviationist running dogs in Conservative Party Central Office who want to bug your bedroom and hand everything on a plate to the big corporates owned by the pension funds – which in turn rely on people dying predictably to provide their raison d'être.

Not that he cared about making money, it was just that all his life he had been around people for whom commerce was the raison d't6tre, and he could not avoid picking up a little of their way of thinking.