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He deserves to have his stated motives and opinions known, discussed, and taken seriously.
Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy notes that Morsi’s previous role in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Council sheds some light on the motives behind his current behavior.
Republican Congressmen from districts with higher levels of income inequality were more likely to vote for legislation to expand housing credit to the poor in the years before the crisis (almost all Democrats voted for such legislation, making it hard to distinguish their motives).
Over the last decade we moved from complete aversion to the idea of reform to a policy of mutant reforms pursued for corrupt motives, to the gradual adaptation of legitimate Western practices.
The stated motives of the intellectuals who created it were not racist; they did not assume Jews to be biologically inferior.
Bad judgment can arise even from decent motives, and knowledge (of Islam or of Judaism) is no prophylactic against stupid ideas.
Hill knew that her motives would be questioned.
Alongside economic motives for migration there has always been another: ethnic, religious, and political persecution.
Of course, China’s motives are not purely benevolent.
Park remains, rightly, a skeptic concerning Kim’s motives; but the spectacle of the North’s second-highest-ranking official appearing suddenly at the Asian Games earlier this month created a frisson of excitement that perhaps Kim the Younger may actually want to improve relations.
His stated motives seem too anarchic for that.
In fact, Chinese policymakers have broader motives.
What is extraordinary is that many of these countries (like China, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, South Korea, and Vietnam) have been at one another’s throats over territorial and other disputes, while others (not least China and the US) are abidingly suspicious of each other’s geopolitical motives and intentions.
Other countries, particularly China, may have strong domestic political motives for their anti-Japanese propaganda, but Japan's more sensitive treatment of its history could at least stop adding fuel to the fire.
Yet Fed officials, while commenting copiously about their motives for tapering QE, have said nothing about the impact of doing so on emerging markets.
The single currency’s advocates are right about one thing: political motives have always underpinned the establishment of monetary unions, from Latin America’s in the period from 1865 to 1927 to that between Ireland and Britain from 1922 to 1979.
But both ordinary AKP supporters and disillusioned secularists are now suspicious of America’s actions and motives in the region.
Demands for self-determination in today’s world must be judged on a case-by-case basis that assesses the motives, means, and consequences involved, and that does so in a multilateral framework.
But whether the Yukos affair proves to be an isolated case, as the Kremlin insists, depends on a reading of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motives.
But this wave of patriotic fervor seems sustained by even stronger forces – perhaps by a frustrated emotional sense that America’s motives are not properly understood in the rest of the world.
These singular acts of desperation, irrespective of their motives, should be viewed in the wider context of ongoing religious and political problems in Tibet.
The difference lies not only in the mind-boggling number of victims and the ferocity with which it was perpetuated, but also in the absence of the usual motives found in other massacres and genocides.
The central bank has motives to be concerned.
This semi-independence partly reflects the absence of linguistic motives in Scottish nationalism, unlike the Quebecois of Canada or Flemish nationalism in Belgium.
Thus, little protest is heard if a judge is asked to conduct an independent inquiry even into such matters as the motives for the Iraq war.
Perhaps there are other motives for normalization that the ECB doesn’t discuss publicly.
How could such a keen observer of the US, whose former career as a spy honed his ability to decipher people’s motives and intentions, fail to recognize the falseness of Trump’s promises?
Religion, or creed, is among history’s most common motives for war, and the twenty-first century is no exception.
Continuing on this path, and ensuring that Saudi Aramco fully meets the country’s stringent domestic standards, would be in line with the motives behind the company’s privatization, which include, as Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has explained, increasing transparency.
Like the $50 billion New Development Bank announced by the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) last summer, the AIIB has faced considerable scrutiny, with some Western leaders questioning its governance, transparency, and motives.
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