1.  If well-made TV messages really have no impact, than the whole reason for doing this study vanishes.

2.  It is as though their whole reason for being is to chastise black civil-rights leaders, counter the views of black liberal writers and decry affirmative action.

3.  That was the whole reason I agreed to do this book. . . .

4.  The idea undermines the whole reason for the court, which is to have international law trump the impunity international thugs win by force.

5.  The whole reason for having the straw poll in the first place was to raise money for Iowa Republicans.

6.  The whole reason I do anything is to try to make a difference.

7.  The whole reason we grant strong patents, trademarks and copyrights is to create an incentive to come up with and develop new ideas.

8.  The whole reason the talks began is the common feeling there are two companies fighting for the same niche.

9.  But for developing countries like Bangladesh, the whole reason for making the expensive trip to Copenhagen was to get something tangible in return from wealthy countries.

10.  His whole reason for being in Pale was its proximity to Sarajevo, which is linked by a magnificent mountain road from which Serb soldiers shelled the city below.