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305 examples of Motive in a sentence

That is why, when “you take in a greater variety of parties and interests,” he wrote, “you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.”
The market economy and the profit motive have led to extremely high living standards in many places.
So, if predatory pricing is not the producers’ motive for selling below cost in these cases, what is?
But WMD were not the only motive for war.
Otherwise, consumers will have to pay many times over for their temporary gains as private firms, stripped of the profit motive, prove themselves as capable of inefficiency as their nationalized predecessors.
In contrast, the Al Qaeda terrorists of September 11 th acted on a global scale and with a global motive.
But if profit is not the motive, why would anyone want to pay tens of millions of dollars for works like these?
The motive of Mitterrand’s “mission” was to determine what precautions could or should be taken against the potential vagaries of this powerful but unpredictable people.
As Keynes wisely remarked, “If nations can learn to provide themselves with full employment by their domestic policy…there would no longer be a pressing motive why one country need force its wares on another or repulse the offerings of its neighbor.”
Kirchner is not above suspicion, but the judges’ lack of a watertight legal case raises suspicions of a political motive.
Historically, absolute advantage – a country importing what it cannot produce itself, or can only produce at inordinate cost – has always been the main motive for trade.
But was Swift right to see knavery as the main motive for unintelligibility?
Obviously, it is a very powerful motive, in politics no less than in finance.
The latter seems the dominant motive.
Finance has always been opaque, quite apart from the motive of swindling the investing public.
Their direct motive is to help others, and their giving makes them happier only as a consequence of the fact that it does help others.
What motive would the government have to be a trustee for unknown people at the expense of real and present voters?
In domestic law, the motive behind a crime is usually irrelevant – and for good reason.
The motive seems to be brutally simple: “Precisely because you want it, we won’t deliver.
Whatever the motive, it looked like an effort to skew the US political process – precisely the type of nonlethal political threat that one would want to deter in the future.
Their motive is not budgetary prudence, but rather retaliation for the EU’s efforts to make its funding conditional on compliance with the rule of law.
And the profit motive is spurring venture capitalists to make huge investments in the new technologies required to deliver a zero-carbon economy.
Once clear prices and regulations are in place, market competition and the profit motive will drive innovation, and economies of scale and learning-curve effects will force down the costs of zero-carbon technologies.
The ulterior motive, of course, is to re-instill a sense of self-importance in the English, by putting them back at the center of a common British project.
In 2018, the Journal of Forensic Sciences published an investigation into the motive behind the murder by two sixteen-year-olds in Idaho of a classmate, who was stabbed 30 times.
Russia’s motive for siding with Haftar is more intriguing, but can be summed up in one word: revanchism.
But Google does a lot of work for the US government, including the US military and intelligence services, and the profit motive is not preventing Facebook from being a threat; in fact, it is amplifying the danger.
This is why so many observers worry that Trump’s motive in sending federal paramilitary forces into US cities was not to deter violence, but to provoke it.
True, there currently is little sign of inflation – for centuries a major motive for holding gold.
The idea that peace with Israel also means peace with America had always been a fundamental motive behind the Arabs’ decision to consider reconciliation with the Jewish state.
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