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Is the travel ban really about protecting Americans, or might there be other motives?
Of course, Russia's generals readily believe the most paranoid explanations of American motives (particularly now, when American foreign policy seems so arrogant).
The motives behind such voting patterns may vary – some voters made a fortune during the economic recovery, while others are simply satisfied with the status quo.
Even when a president’s motives are not self-serving, he should be cautious about choosing to lie.
In Johnson’s case, this imperative was reinforced by his personal motives.
Speculation about America's motives, with press commentators highlighting the role of the Christian right-wing in formulating American policy, is increasing.
Khrushchev’s motives as he took the podium on the morning of February 25, 1956, were, in his mind, moral ones.
We categorize people around us as friends or foes, classify their motives as good or bad, and ascribe events with complex roots to straightforward causes.
Because Americans misunderstood the motives behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States fought two costly wars, which did not defeat its enemies and have left the Middle East more volatile than ever.
There can be no doubt that those who are attempting to help people involved in disasters and trauma have noble motives, but that is not enough.
Longer-term sustainability concerns (including infrastructure maintenance) thus usually take a back seat to political motives.
It is always risky to speculate about hidden motives; nevertheless, systematic disparagement of Israeli society and culture undoubtedly encourages the sense that anti-Semitism, too, is a permitted prejudice.
Their outlook nowadays is the product of these two worldviews – suspicious of others’ motives and proud of themselves as smart, tough negotiators and not without their own resources.
Their explanation was that the West is uncomfortable with the motives and behavior of ideological states – Syria, Iran, and Iraq under Saddam were states with causes – Islam, Arab unity, or anti-Zionism.
The world’s judgments about Iran’s motives and actions should not be distorted by Iranian pride.
But, while everyone else ponders China’s motives, its government is acting.
China had several possible motives for staging his “escape,” including a desire to strengthen his claim to the title at a time when the rival contender (backed by important interests in India, Bhutan, and Taiwan) appeared to be gaining ground.
But, even today, we are still far from understanding many important factors, connections, motives, reasons, and consequences in what happened in 1917 and during the first years of Soviet power.
Thousands of names fell out of the history, people’s deeds were “passed” to others, and the nature, motives, and activities of parties, groups, national movements, and classes were distorted.
While President Bashar al-Assad’s regime remains vicious and tyrannical, and some of its opponents’ motives remain altruistic, the conflict can no longer be defined simply as one of good versus evil.
But, whatever his motives, the anxiety that led up to Argentina's last minute deal with the IMF to repay $3.1 billion owed the global lender may serve to help to rescue what capitalism is really about: the appropriate judgment of risk.
Likewise, opening Germany’s borders to a flood of refugees, however pure Chancellor Angela Merkel’s motives, was sure to trigger a backlash.
Moral criticisms of the market focus on its tendency to favor a morally deficient character type, to privilege disagreeable motives, and to promote undesirable outcomes.
This would prune the role of greed and envy in the operation of markets, and create room for the flourishing of other motives.
The Beijing-based dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, an activist intellectual in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, questioned the government's motives for opposing the war.
Meanwhile, Turkish authorities affirm the country’s commitment to press freedom, even as they impugn the motives of those who exercise it.
Perhaps Kim’s motives for purging Jang can be found in Shakespeare’s oeuvre.
A complex array of political pressures, motives, and aspirations determines which lessons we take from history, and which new global-health targets we set for ourselves.
But, in a recent newspaper commentary, Putin raised a question that has surely occurred to others: What were the regime’s motives in using chemical weapons in the glare of international publicity?
But even here, it has become far too common to impugn the motives and values, not just the ideas, of those with whom we disagree.
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