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Her boyfriend Ford makes a pathetic attempt to conceal his motives as he introduces the subject, but she seems to expect this kind of low scheme from him and anticipates his every move.
What makes this episode so good is that when the agents get stranded out on a rock in the middle of the lake, they have a real in depth discussion about Mulder's reasons and motives for chasing monsters all over.
None other than poor Ms. Allyson, playing a homicidal lesbian whose motives remain as murky as everything else in this slapped-together disaster.
Of course, some of the old suspicions about Russian motives linger in the West, most particularly over Iraq (where Lukoil, Russia's biggest oil company, recently signed a new deal to develop Iraqi oil fields).
But NATO' s motives, benign or not, are no defense to illegality.
Such temptations are understandable, and need not be animated by improper motives.
The motives for these interventions varied, but all led to American efforts to establish working governments – nation-building – that proved protracted and frustrating.
One way to do this is to understand China’s motives.
Political motives behind European integration were overshadowed by the economic project.
But Sweden’s freedom of expression was also one of the motives behind a grisly suicide attack in Stockholm in December of last year.
Speculation about North Korea’s motives for pursuing nuclear weapons is as old as the effort itself.
The power to pardon, Hamilton continued, ought to be exercised by one person, because a single person “would be most ready to attend to the force of those motives which might plead for the mitigation of the rigor of the law.”
According to Gallup, only 7% of Muslims are politically radical and condone the use of violence, and their motives are not so much religious as inspired by the demeaning political and social treatment that Muslims are perceived to suffer.
In fact, migrants on the same boat may have very different motives – what policymakers call “mixed migration.”
All the sociological evidence about the girls’ motives, which are in fact very varied, is swept aside as irrelevant.
Similar motives dictate reserve accumulation in other emerging markets.
Whatever his motives, Netanyahu has achieved what no Israeli leader ever has: not only infuriating the US president (who was already quite angry with him), but also earning the public rebuke of people who would normally have supported any Israeli leader, whatever they might have thought in private.
Though such revenues would be taken into account in the upcoming budget negotiations with EU countries, questions about the Commission’s motives are the last thing it needs.
The motives behind this animus vary, but the overall effect has been to alienate many Turks, who now feel rejected by a Europe that once inspired them.
Yet even China’s most favored beneficiaries remain dubious about its model and motives, largely because Chinese aid remains primarily a business proposition.
The answer will depend on North Korea’s motives in getting the bomb and agreeing to talk.
All too often, the path to easy influence is to impugn the other side’s motives and methods, rather than recognizing and challenging an opposing argument’s points.
While there is a legitimate debate about whether this implies that high debt causes slow growth, Krugman turned to questioning their motives.
Perhaps the paranoid style in public debate, focusing on motives rather than substance, is a useful defensive tactic against rabid critics.
Their motives include more efficient use of prescription drugs, along with getting an edge on other PBM competitors.
Europe’s rolling crisis has shredded trust in the competence and motives of policymakers, who failed to prevent it, have so far failed to resolve it, and bailed out banks and their creditors while inflicting pain on voters (but not on themselves).
Charges and countercharges on the cyber issue have focused primarily on motives.
Normally, we would consider these competitive motives to be beggar-thy-neighbor in nature.
But in the context of green growth, national efforts to boost domestic green industries can be globally desirable, even if the motives are parochial and commercial.
Of course, there are other motives behind support for economic integration.
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