Sentence examples for Motive from inspiring English sources

"It was motivated by his fear of being out," Caster said of White's motive for the killing.

"There's still nothing to identify a specific motive as to why Mr Lee took these actions," Duke said.

"I can't tell you what the motive was, to me it looks like they were looking at the bottom line, looking at the expenditure... rather than looking closer to home and going to their department heads," Sudmalis said.

Tony McNulty, a Home Office minister, dismissed Davis's campaign as a "complete circus, tinged with vanity with a bit of self-delusion" and hinted that the true motive lay in shadow cabinet divisions which had yet to be unearthed.

You brought his life to an end without any motive in circumstances which you know amounted to murder…" Since his mother died, Ben Gunn had been forever escaping the rules and authority that had closed in on him, climbing out of windows, scarpering down driveways.

Who now believes that "light regulation" will encourage banks to contribute to the general good, or that the profit motive – as illustrated by the collapse of Southern Cross – is the best stimulus to high-quality domiciliary care?

The motive behind these unauthorised searches has not been disclosed but it's not suggested that the individual was selling secrets or that the security breach was of the highest level.

The psycho bitch is just crazy – she has no motive, and so she's a dismissible person because of her psycho-bitchiness".

"And this brings me back to a motive for the letter," he wrote.

What began as a group of people rightfully seeking an explanation from the police about the death of a community member has evolved into a group of people being malignant without motive, actively destroying the communities to which they belong.

What I object to is bringing forward pictures and videos of my adopted daughters, suggesting that there is some sinister motive there.