Sentence examples for Chief motive from inspiring English sources

The terms of the amendment, notwithstanding the chief motive for its adoption, were not so limited.

Vilar's chief motive for embezzling seems to be to give the money away.

So when MPs or other Labour voices condemn Corbyn and his team, their chief motive is not ideological disagreement.

Sauvage's chief motive seems to be overpowering boredom, which is to Mr. Malkovich what sputtering rage is to Al Pacino.

One chief motive seemed clear: the defeat of Islamic militance in Central Asia, on Russia's southern doorstep.

Because isn't that the chief motive, as well as loss of public image, for them leaving the profession, for the huge exit of teachers into private industry?

By Bush's own account, revenge was among his chief motives in sanctioning torture.

The desire to tie it down was one of the chief motives of the German and French politicians who founded what has become the European Union.

Even as these crimes unfolded, the Tate Britain curators persisted in their scholarly labors, surveying 500 years of assaults on British art and coming up with three chief motives: religion, politics and aesthetics.

One of the chief motives was Radio 1's chagrin that Peel's late-night slot gives him almost all of the station's precious weekday allotment of VHF stereo time - and he uses it for scruffy experimental bands.

2. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self, regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc. 3. (Ethics) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.