Sentence examples for To motive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
They could point to motive.
But as to motive, nothing was apparent.
As to motive, why lick the pasta bowl clean?
Some mass killers leave little doubt to motive.
"We're not discounting any possibilities with regard to motive".
"We are not going to speculate at this time as to motive beyond that," Mr. Suthers said.
(Schutz 1964, 87) Besides thus resuscitating a version of homo economicus, Schutz insisted that economists study purposive-rational actions, which, in Weber's sense, involved a reflective comparison of alternative projects before adopting one as an in-order-to motive.
Through such reflectivity, one imagines a project as completed in future perfect tense, that is, what will have been realized after one's acting, and this project, also of central importance for Martin Heidegger and the pragmatist tradition, establishes the "in-order-to motive" of one's action.
Similarly, failure to appreciate temporality often leads to misinterpretations of action, as when one assumes that the outcome of an act may have been its motive without considering the actor's in-order-to motive, which due to unforeseen events may have been adjusted or may have led to results contrary to those intended.
According to motive-based accounts of evil character, to be an evil person is to be motivated in a certain sort of way.
PTSD diagnosis and heavy smoking status were independently and differentially related to motives for smoking.
