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305 examples of Motive in a sentence

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.
Now, in a large class of dynamic models of wealth accumulation with such dynastic motive for accumulating wealth, you will have all sorts of random, multiplicative shocks.
Two thousand years ago, Galen, one of the most prominent medical researchers of the ancient world, proposed that while we're awake, our brain's motive force, its juice, would flow out to all the other parts of the body, animating them but leaving the brain all dried up, and he thought that when we sleep, all this moisture that filled the rest of the body would come rushing back, rehydrating the brain and refreshing the mind.
The profit motive is transforming health outcomes in this world.
But also we've started to have debates about how the role of the private sector should move away from just being a profit motive and really be more engaged in the delivery of social programs.
And it was an article in 2014 on political motive asymmetry.
What the authors of this article found was that in America today, a majority of Republicans and Democrats suffer from political motive asymmetry.
He had a sterling record, no past history of wrongdoing, no motive as far as they could tell.
Most importantly, we have the motive: we have a world that needs fixing, and nobody's going to do it for us.
This usage eventually laid the groundwork for the modern meaning of the word “cynic:" a person who thinks everyone else is acting out of pure self-interest, even if they claim a higher motive.
He is a builder with a passion, but he has a partner whose profit motive includes over-insuring and burning.
So in short if you like good movies you have no interest in this film, if you like cheese you still don't have any reason to rent this film, if you like erotica and soft core porn you really have no motive to rent this film, and most importantly if you value your time in the slightest, you cannot do better than to avoid this movie.
What was the motive?
the ghost is a black haired girl, that scares it's victims by doing nothing else than walk and look dead.. the difference is just the motive for the haunting.
This is definitely a film without motive that was shot poorly and very drawn out.
It's a murder mystery with a typical cast of characters, and a couple of the usual suspects -- each with their own possible motive for the crime.
The motive for the murders was incredibly stupid.
He'll be canned after school lets out providing the flick with his motive as a possible killer.
Basically, the idea in this film is that these characters insatiable drive to find comfort, security, and pleasure in sexual acts is actually the unhealthy motive that makes them so unbearable to themselves--which they hide from themselves with more sex.
And how about that brilliant motive of hers...! Her grandmother was forced into prostitution when she was a fresh-off-the-boat 15 year-old virgin in NY, and then syphilisized by a bunch of horny Jewish men, one of whom - tah-dah! - is Scheider's grandfather.
Of equal frustration is the poorly explained motive for Jeff Bridges's actions.
There's no glue or motive that can be detected on screen, allowing the subject matter to use pre-existing emotional connections to furthur the plot, without the script doing it like it's supposed to.
It is likely a sign of how ahead of his time Hitchcock was, always attempting to push the envelope, and never coasting along with a film made simply for the purpose of being entertaining, but always with a deeper, more poignant motive on his mind.
Larry tells that he did not like it, and explains that in every mystery tale, the murderer should eliminate the motive and establish an alibi, otherwise he would get caught.
Owen, who wants to kill his detestable mother (Anne Ramsey), watches "Strangers on a Train" and misunderstands Larry's advice, believing that his teacher wants to swap murders to eliminate the motive.
He moves from one place to another in a giant RV without direction or motive only to pass time and entertain himself.
His motive of committing murder is left incompletely explained, and it makes viewers think.
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