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    motive


    motives


    1. yes, I have a sort-of motive for wanting Joanna out of the way


    2. ‘And now there’s the business of the baby … which gives him a motive


    3. ‘But it does provide a pretty strong motive for Dan


    4. ‘If he is convicted of the murder, and I know Ditton is working flat out trying to establish motive and opportunity, it will hit Liz hard, Mum


    5. Beyond sleep, Danton, grizzly Danton, the bear, the motive power behind the


    6. I constructed a hypothetical link between dispossession and extreme motive


    7. It was unlikely that anyone would be trying to make a new friend at a time like this without an ulterior motive


    8. So understand that if we’re going to hear the words of God and receive wisdom – which is to say receive the Spirit – we need to be of a certain motive and have a certain heart and disposition to hear from God objectively


    9. Beyond sleep, Danton, grizzly Danton, the bear, the motive power behind the revolution, prowled the corridors of La Force Nouveau


    10. Of his animus, his base motive

    11. The Mystery of the Human Motive


    12. the mystery of the human motive,


    13. The fact that she wasn’t was an important clue to her real motive


    14. “What would be their motive?”


    15. Chris looks at him for a moment as though assessing his motive


    16. Bunty Danvers was a remarkable woman of great generosity, as you will no doubt have realised, she cared greatly about people and took immense pains to do whatever she could to help those who, as she saw it, needed assistance, but only ever from an altruistic motive


    17. He has no real means or motive for joining in with her rage


    18. That hardly seemed a motive compared to currying favor with a founder of the Kassikan


    19. The obvious name that springs to mind is Chrissie Hartley-Jones – after all, she’s the only one with anything like a motive – from what we’ve heard she certainly had no reason to love any of them


    20. But at the same time, any casual observer would think she was the one with the most motive for taking this body

    21. So he still knew no motive for this summons and had to plug away at any angle it might be for the remainder of the shift


    22. Could he possibly have had any motive for killing the


    23. And the motive seems awfully thin


    24. Although he couldn't see a motive for either


    25. 'Because he had no motive


    26. 'No motive? That slimy Italian assaulted his wife,


    27. 'You think he did it, don't you? Why? What motive


    28. you who interpreted it as a motive


    29. Apothecary was the only person with both motive and


    30. motive the Dean can concoct for either of us killing

    31. ‘There is also the fact that she had a strong motive,


    32. he was here, and he had motive


    33. Motive, means and opportunity are essential in any criminal investigation and are the central tenets of this story


    34. We know the means and the opportunity, or at least we have some information as to their part, but what about the motive if it were not an accident? I sat looking at all the data regarding the incident and looked for a motive for stealing MH370


    35. I found out that parts for the Boeing 777 are particularly scarce at present, making this a plausible motive


    36. "What would be his motive for putting his credibility in danger with a work of fiction?" Klowa asked


    37. Well did Robert take any notice to what I said? No, his wife Gill thought the same but she had an ulterior motive I felt, as she wanted her husband to buy them one of those modern food processors instead


    38. She too recognized an ulterior motive when she saw one


    39. The consideration of his own private profit is the sole motive which determines the owner of any capital to employ it either in agriculture, in manufactures, or in some particular branch of the wholesale or retail trade


    40. On the way back from the palace Helez couldn’t stop thinking about what Zarko had said about the king’s ulterior motive to get her into his harem

    41. But though the carrying trade certainly deserves no peculiar encouragement, though the motive of the institution was, perhaps, abundantly foolish, the institution itself seems reasonable enough


    42. John became a soldier to please his father, but never adopted service to country as his motive for doing so


    43. Swami Satchidananda says, “Any desire without any personal or selfish motive will never bind you


    44. But the hope of finding treasures of gold there was the sole motive which prompted to undertake it; and to give this motive the greater weight, it was proposed by Columbus, that the half of all the gold and silver that should be found there, should belong to the crown


    45. All the other enterprizes of the Spaniards in the New World, subsequent to those of Columbus, seem to have been prompted by the same motive


    46. The first English settlers in North America, however, offered a fifth of all the gold and silver which should be found there to the king, as a motive for granting them their patents


    47. He has every motive to render as great as possible a produce which is thus to be almost entirely his own


    48. His motive was to make trouble, and a name for himself


    49. The common saying ‘everything happens for a reason’ implies a motive behind every action


    50. The laudable motive of all these regulations, is to extend our own manufactures, not by their own improvement, but by the depression of those of all our neighbours, and by putting an end, as much as possible, to the troublesome competition of such odious and disagreeable rivals














































    1. will never detect when we have wrong motives


    2. Using power for selfish motives or telling someone else about confidential information you had been entrusted with is against Asteya


    3. When our motives and our ministries and our dreams and aspirations are counter to what the Lord will speak, then we won’t hear from Him


    4. The principalities and powers manipulate such motives because the restoration of Israel is their end – the coming of the Lord


    5. Gentleman that he is, he gets out to hold my door open for me, but he has ulterior motives - I get out of the car straight into his arms


    6. motives are, but this should give you something to think about and a place


    7. She was uncomfortably aware that she couldn’t have said why she felt this was important but didn’t bother to question her motives


    8. He knew she was an intelligent woman who’s company he would enjoy, but he also worried about her motives


    9. Trying to guess their motives was the first step and that was his weakest skill


    10. She directed Socratic-ly, that is by asking questions of her players and allowing them the opportunity to sort out their dilemmas and confusions, their motives and best advantages for themselves---after a fashion at any rate

    11. Harry spent the next half an hour explaining his motives and actions over the last twelve hours---his wanting to be more of a real contributor to the Waterhouse firm, his apprenticeship, his graduation from Malvern


    12. Were it not, mere charity or friendship could be the only motives for lending


    13. "Lieutenant Mason I understand your motives and your work on the biology base has been commendable


    14. "But what are their motives?" Althart asked, "Why try to exterminate millions of innocent people, why actually destroy the economies of two basins? What is their possible gain?"


    15. “Sorry,” I said cooling down and realizing his exemplary motives


    16. And she wondered how long it would take for her companions under the streets to realize that she was no ordinary thief, that her motives were entirely atyp-ical


    17. Nuska smiled wickedly as her eyes followed Zarko, her true motives hidden behind her sparkling, dark brown eyes


    18. If it is a search warrant, then you need to take a second look at your motives and actions


    19. The same motives, the same interests, which would thus regulate the conduct of any one dealer, would regulate that of every other, and oblige them all in general to sell their corn at the price which, according to the best of their judgment, was most suitable to the scarcity or plenty of the season


    20. Some motives contribute positively to mental health and happiness, and others do not

    21. Of the Motives for Establishing New Colonies


    22. A Roman colony, therefore, whether we consider the nature of the establishment itself, or the motives for making it, was altogether different from a Greek one


    23. The adventurers, indeed, who formed some of the latter establishments, joined to the chimerical project of finding gold and silver mines, other motives more reasonable and more laudable; but even these motives do very little honour to the policy of Europe


    24. Success from the soul’s perspective is always based on the higher motives, which concern the growth of the soul and ascension in spirituality


    25. their motives are frequently dictated by their egos instead of their Higher Selves


    26. Also, most of our current acts of kindness seem to come with ulterior motives


    27. He considered the true nature of his motives


    28. What those lectures shall be, must still depend upon the diligence of the teacher ; and that diligence is likely to be proportioned to the motives which he has for exerting it


    29. If he is obliged, therefore, to give a certain number of lectures, these motives alone, without any other interest, might dispose him to take some pains to give tolerably good ones


    30. And what of Jack? Was he frantically searching for her niece? At one stage Rosemary had been prepared to take him as a lover; whatever her motives

    31. Suddenly he considered that these men may all be wielders who were turning mad from the taint! That would be his fault for bringing the taint, and he slaughtered these men without a thought to their motives other than the belief that they served the Dark One


    32. faced with an enemy you didn’t know, Captain? What if it were some new lifeform whose motives


    33. Gerrid knew he needed to examine the true extent of his motives


    34. What had that cat been up to? “Here they are, Paul,” I said, handing him his glasses, relieved that they were found, and also strangely relieved that Soot was still among the living, though wary as to his most recent motives


    35. Most defectors or informants have other motives far beyond money though we cannot deny that money can buy whatever else you need


    36. In this manner, the love an individual expresses for another individual is conditioned by self-interest and that the underlying motives behind every kindly and selfless act conceals an (inner) need or emotional requirement that an individual seeks to fulfill


    37. There is no question, however, that such perception(s) often provide irrational motives for individuals bent on committing some arbitrarily violent action for its own sake


    38. Although certain forms of behavior or crimes are generally understood, their (underlying) motives or reasons (or Truth) are not always apparent; that is to say, not necessarily evident in themselves although they should be to critically minded individuals


    39. (Why do we do the things we do?) In other words, we may be certain that a crime has been committed but uncertain as to the hidden motives that explain why the crime was committed


    40. The inherent ―right‖ to terminate one‘s (own) life as it relates to vague or questionable notions defining quality of life, introduces yet another dubious precedent as it relates to Choice, especially in rather gray areas where the decision to either perpetuate or curtail an individual‘s life has been proxied (sic) at a time when that individual could not possibly foresee the (uncertain) consequences of such decisions entrusted to the care of family members or friends (concealing underlying motives for authorizing such decisions, perhaps) or where a potential illness at some uncertain point in time or that individual‘s problematical reaction (to that illness) could not possibly be understood in advance; that is to say, until that individual is actually sitting on Death‘s doorstep

    41. ) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life


    42. ‖ In what manner, for example, can we be certain of mutual love? Are demonstrable expressions of love sufficient proofs in themselves? Are outward appearances genuine or do such expressions proceed from affected emotions or selfish motive(s)? Does an act of love anticipate a reciprocity of tender feelings or is (that) love for an individual, apart from ―loving‖ that individual, expressed less for its own sake rather than the sake of the beloved? At what juncture does Reason, justified by Faith, provide us with some measure of certainty that we may rely upon without imposing limits or placing conditions on that love?


    43. This makes us wonder about your motives when coming after our own leaders


    44. Test your hearts! Look upon How is it you refuse My your motives! Shall you question My ways, though you yet stand in the court of your own deceitful hearts?! For I tell you, the lies thereof have led you astray and the tablets thereof lack justice


    45. The War on Terror is encountering a great deal of opposition from the (hard) Left who continue to advance the notion of American Moral Culpability; that is to say, that America is the (historical) root cause of (all) worldly grievances and should therefore make every conceivable effort to redress certain points of contention that have evolved from its own (alleged) transgressions; thereby giving (justifiable) cause to the underlying motives that led up to the events of 9/11


    46. Tolerance requires an ―intuitive‖ capacity to render sound (moral) judgments as they relate to essential motives and/or principle ideas that form the template of a well-ordered society that do not reflexively support tolerance for its own sake without giving proper pause to discriminating factors that correctly defines appropriate conduct


    47. Although causal factors may properly explain the reasons or motives behind some wanton or criminal action, they do not exonerate the consequences of that action, however


    48. ‖ It provides the framework that governs our motives, informs our decisions and provides legitimacy to our beliefs


    49. impulses (or motives) may be understood in terms of that individual‘s essential designs or a product of (social) conditioning that in some manner informs that individual of the potential consequences (or effects) of his or her response


    50. For this reason, a timid individual, for example, may be more unlikely than another individual, who is more daring, to confront pressing challenges unless the underlying motives are superseded by other, more compelling reasons or competing factors connected in some manner with the













































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