Motive in example sentence

As Harvard’s Robert Barro has recently pointed out, fear of a general or unpredictable catastrophe – even one that spares a subset of assets that cannot be specified in advance – will not affect relative asset prices, because investors have no motive to sell or buy any particular asset.

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But it was a social arena in which other people were gathering with a common motive.

But I had an ulterior motive of visiting Gottfried Schlaug, and it was this: that I was at a crossroads in my life, trying to choose between music and medicine.

It was time to push what I called MAPS 3. Now MAPS 3, like the other two programs, had had an economic development motive behind it, but along with the traditional economic development tasks like building a new convention center, we added some health-related infrastructure to the process.

Some even said I had a political motive.

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