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But in contrast to my evil twin who lusts after world domination, my motives are not sinister.
And the motives of online criminals are very easy to understand.
So focusing on outcomes, not motives, can turn gridlock and conflict into a unifying solution to America's energy challenge.
They come from loads and loads of different random accounts, and it's impossible to know who's posting them or what their motives might be.
As far as we know, Medieval England was never invaded by ice zombies, or terrorized by dragons, but it was shaken by a power struggle between two noble families spanning generations and involving a massive cast of characters with complex motives and shifting loyalties.
Their motives, their trustworthiness.
Her trustworthiness and her motives.
Whereas giving and taking are more of your inner motives: What are your values?
Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.
At first, we may be suspicious of Shiftlet’s motives when he offers to help around the house, but O’Connor soon reveals the old woman to be just as scheming as her unexpected guest– and rattles the reader’s presumptions about who has the upper hand.
It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.
It's not enough to appeal to people's good motives.
Liberals have very noble motives for doing this.
Also, even if we were born with certain ignoble motives, they don't automatically lead to ignoble behavior.
It helps you think critically while you're stitching away, and it helps you be more mindful of what are your motives.
At every stage, we're as transparent as possible about our methods and our motives.
These beings exist beyond our conceptions of reality, their true forms as inscrutable as their motives.
These questions are complicated by a tangled web of characters, forcing Hamlet to negotiate friends, family, court counselors, and love interests– many of whom possess ulterior motives.
Imagine how many millions of lives we could save if Moses's machine were in places like Newark, New Jersey, South Africa and India, with compassion instead of profit motives.
My own law firm has a list of questions that I'm not allowed to ask when interviewing candidates, such as the sinister question, bulging with hidden motives and innuendo, "Where are you from?" (Laughter) Now for 20 years, tort reformers have been sounding the alarm that lawsuits are out of control.
It's very hard to measure because there are mixed motives.
Martin Luther King would say, "I imagine a world where all cows will be free to cross the road, without having their motives called into question."
It doesn't help that the teenagers are a generally unlikable group (this is one of those movies where the killer's motives seem pretty reasonable) and there are numerous stupid plot setups to keep the story going.
There is a corny Scottish pastiche style throughout, not helped by weak writing (where motives are lumped in by the spadeful) and acting that is uneven and often unengaging (despite what reads like a decent cast).
This could have ended with a "pay-off", but there were other motives behind the pen.
What is Dr. Lloyd's interest and his motives?
In The Clearing, what starts out as an intriguing mystery, with a kidnapping and unknown motives, turns into a slow draggy pointless exercise.
Unless they had ulterior motives.
He comes back emtpy handed, having done his duty but having told the truth to the English about his motives.
If you like to watch movies that start out with a good guy trying to catch a bad guy, then reveal clues to the motives of each throughout the movie, skip it.
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