Sentence examples for Many motives from inspiring English sources

Many motives exist for Raskolnikov's crime: family, society, altruism, utilitarianism, socialism, nihilism, raw Napoleonic domination.

Whistleblowers have many motives.

But for many, motives are not important.

There were many motives behind the no votes.

There are as many motives for wanting your portrait painted as there are portraits.

Although the break with a mission church betokened a desire for independence from whites, there were many motives for separatism.

Many newspapers' motives are not press freedom but "the profit motive, the bottom line", he says.

This early demonstration of learned emotional responses has suggested to psychologists that many human motives may result from the accidental pairing of events.

He was probably looking for a mate, Mr. Douglasaidmilton said, because "there are not many other motives for him to go on such a safari".

Orlando Magic General Manager John Gabriel said, "I would say that clearly there are as many different motives as there are teams involved in this four-way deal, to clearing cap room, to changing faces, to the Timberwolves, who made the biggest gain in now being considered as one of the top four teams in the West".

These scenes are exciting, but Phillips's most substantial achievement is his analysis of the Realpolitik of the Fourth Crusade, his effort to show these knights not as greedy cynics, which is what Steven Runciman called them, but as men impelled by many conflicting motives, among which, like Asbridge, he places religion very high.