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305 examples of Motive in a sentence

The finale comes completely out of character for Lou, a crime without motive that is frankly unbelievable and the final written statement makes it clear that whoever wrote this tripe had one too many misogynist nightmares.
My girlfriend kept rolling her eyes at the constant changes in motive and plot twists that kept the story going.
Is that really her motive?
And, whatever his motive, Macron’s message is sound.
These officials confuse the motive for NATO's actions with the legality of such actions.
A further motive of the ECB’s bond purchases has been to increase the cash that eurozone banks have available to lend to businesses and households.
Perhaps al-Qaeda's motive in targeting Turkey is to derail a Muslim nation from its progress toward joining the European Union?
The motive today is not to defend ethnic Germans abroad – their expulsion in the millions in the 1940s ended that particular concern – so much as the more laudable desire to preserve the values of a democratic EU against the new authoritarianism from the East.
But is revenge a worthy motive for a state’s actions, especially toward its own citizens?
Looking around the world in 2004, you begin to understand Popper's motive: freedom always means living with risk, but without security, risk means only threats, not opportunities.
This is in marked contrast to the conventional view in the West that the prime motive for Islamist terrorism is religious.
Another peculiarity of Russia's media market, stemming from the absence of the profit motive, is a chronic overproduction of titles.
If so, he got the applause; but, given the current polls, the latter motive would be quite a gamble.
Even if greed is ruled out as an acceptable motive, in favor of traditional ethno-cultural nationalism, a profusion of tiny tribal states might make the world far more unstable.
Often, the authorities’ motive seems to be to give domestic industries a leg up in global competition.
Darwin himself was much influenced by Christian ideas, especially where we least expect it: in his belief in natural selection--the bane of the Church--as evolution's motive force.
Britain’s motive was mainly economic – to escape the EEC’s external tariff against British goods, by joining a more dynamic free-trade area.
But the motive of preventing the formation of a political bloc was never absent, and ran counter to the European founding fathers’ dream of a political union.
Whereas America’s goal in seeking to topple Assad was mainly to undercut Iranian and Russian influence, Turkey’s motive was to expand its influence in former Ottoman lands and, more recently, to counter Kurdish ambitions for territorial autonomy, if not statehood, in Syria and Iraq.
After all, motive and context are legitimate questions in any serious criminal allegation.
Xi’s motive in pursuing modernity is not, as many in the West have wrongly inferred, to establish China as a superpower on par with the United States; on the contrary, Xi views his current challenge and mission as being primarily domestic.
But when lots of easy money pushed by a deep-pocketed government comes into contact with the profit motive of a sophisticated, competitive, and amoral financial sector, matters get taken far beyond the government’s intent.
The motive behind these ideas is all too obvious: support the domestic economy at others’ expense.
But whatever their motive, their decision has resonated widely.
In the popular mind, science is blamed for deadly weapons and environmental pollution, even if the decisions to produce weapons are political, not scientific in nature, and the main reason for pollution is the profit motive, not scientific progress.
Of course, a key motive for Obama’s reticence about engaging in the Middle East is fear of repeating the mistakes that left the US enmeshed in Afghanistan and Iraq – the result of what Obama called the US government’s unthinking “drift toward war in Muslim countries.”
Back in 1957, the motive for “laying the foundations of an ever closer union of the peoples of Europe” was to make war between European nations obsolete, and, in doing so, to bring internal stability to all European nations.
In the private sector, the market mechanism provides the elements of a self-organizing system, thanks to three interconnected structures: the price system, the profit motive, and capital markets.
The profit motive provides an incentive system to respond to the information that prices contain.
By contrast, most public services have no prices, there is not supposed to be a profit motive in their provision, and capital markets are not supposed to choose what to fund: the money funds whatever is in the budget.
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