Sentence examples for Good motive from inspiring English sources
Shigri has a good motive to attempt an assassination: his father was murdered on Zia's orders.
"All the forensics prove that he had a good motive: to spark reforms, to spark change, to make a difference.
The apparent solution to the problem is to let bad men gain glory through actions that have a good outcome, if not a good motive.
In a trial in 1986, in which Mr. Corbett was one of 11 people charged with breaking immigration laws, Judge Earl H. Carroll said, "Good motive is not a defense to intentional acts of crime".
"It was wrong to react so impulsively, without positive evidence of disloyalty, even though we felt we had a good motive in the security of our state," he wrote in his memoirs.
Did that man say to you: "Yes, it's perfectly all right for private citizens to be engaged in the supply to themselves of cocaine, provided they have a good motive"?
But good motives do not always make good policy.
Corbyn said: "I want people to join for good motives.
I want people to join for good motives.
The radio clampdown had good motives behind it.
