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305 examples of Motive in a sentence

Even though the US does impose import duties on Chinese steel (and many other products), the motive hardly seems to be to lower the world price of steel.
They may have beggar-thy-neighbor consequences, but that is not their motive.
Yet the profit motive, essential in so many fields, seems to have disappointed in one crucial area: education.
But China has another motive for tightening the noose on rare-earth exports: it wants to force high-tech firms to operate in China, so that local companies can absorb their technologies.
In the past, the chief motive for migration was economic.
But the number of those identified as political refugees with a right of asylum was much smaller than those whose chief motive was to improve their economic lot.
In other words, the best way to convince emitters like Chevron or General Motors to help save the planet must be to appeal to their profit motive, right?
When the collateral that underpins excess leverage comes under severe pressure – as was the case for Japanese businesses in the early 1990’s and American consumers in the mid 2000’s – what Koo calls the “debt rejection” motive of deleveraging takes precedence over discretionary spending.
Those criteria are that the atrocities occurring or feared are sufficiently serious to justify, prima facie, a military response; that the response has a primarily humanitarian motive; that no lesser response is likely to be effective in halting or averting the harm; that the proposed response is proportional to the threat; and that the intervention will actually be effective, doing more good than harm.
market should act given the fact that participation in the euro and political union was probably the principal motive for the Denmark’s “No” to euro membership and Britain’s reluctance.
If raters’ profits depend on such performance – on the accuracy of their ratings – the profit motive would turn from a source of perverse incentives to a provider of beneficial incentives.
As a result, serious discussion is too often hijacked by those with an ulterior motive.
Worse, they have both motive and opportunity to grow even larger.
For the vast majority, investment was either "a major consideration" or at least "in part" a motive for buying.
Over the last year, Ukrainian officials have made many pledges, but have made no arrests, identified no suspects, and presented no convincing motive for the killing.
From an ethical perspective, however, should we care so much about the purity of the motive with which the gift was made?
But, compared to the more fundamental factors discussed above, I believe that this is probably a secondary motive for the attack on the Cheonan.
Both the profit motive and a diplomatic effort to showcase its engineering prowess drive China’s overseas dam-building efforts.
Increasingly unstable Arab neighbors might give the Israelis a motive to make peace in a small area and thereby hold at bay the chaos outside.
The only legitimate concern over the AU’s decision is the motive behind it.
China’s motive for reviving Pax Mongolica is clear.
Russia, too, has an economic motive for developing Eurasia.
A month earlier, he had considered prohibiting the use of the niqab in public services, raising suspicion about the true motive behind the decision on refugees.
Fair-trade products like cocoa, coffee, tea, and bananas do not compete with domestic European production, and therefore do not have a protectionist motive.
A reduction in borrowing costs constituted a powerful motive in the 1990’s for southern European governments to join the monetary union.
It would eliminate the primary motive behind Russia’s support for separatism in the country’s southeast: ensuring that Ukraine remains ineligible for NATO membership.
In other words, the self-insurance motive might explain China’s first trillion dollars of reserve holdings, but it has nothing to do with the subsequent three trillion.
Self-interest and charity are not the only human motivations; there is also the motive of service, and it needs to be cultivated.
An exaggerated fear that Muslims are about to destroy the West appears to be their main motive for joining the far right.
Given the potential of financial incentives to skew the design and results of safety tests, keeping the profit motive out of the development and decision-making processes will encourage balanced assessments.
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