Sentence examples for Understandable motive from inspiring English sources

It's an understandable motive, but she risks missing the bigger picture.

Still, the choice was made by a government that wanted to distance itself from the British era, and that is an understandable motive, one that has rewritten the names of many countries, provinces and cities around the globe.

"They could do better". Sometimes there's an understandable motive.

When it comes to chemical weapons, the Syrian opposition has similar and wholly understandable motives.

Those are understandable motives, but they ought to be trumped by the imperative of standing unambiguously against the first forcible change of borders in Europe since World War II.

According to Arendt a distinctive feature of radical evil is that it isn't done for humanly understandable motives such as self-interest, but merely to reinforce totalitarian control and the idea that everything is possible (Arendt 1951, 437 459; Bernstein 2002, 203 224).

Similarly, he says, in the war on terrorism "we have to have a better understanding of what we're up against". Demonizing terrorists as "wicked and evil" plays into their hands, while learning about "their quantifiable goals and understandable motives" demystifies them.

For doctors in general, the understandable need to deny aggressive urges makes it particularly difficult for them to recognize this reaction to patients: "In some way we are always reassuring ourselves that our motives are beyond question because we have chosen to spend our days in the business of understanding others and helping them to improve their lives" (pp 253) [ 50].

It ruled that voluntary euthanasia remained murder, "however understandable the motives".

They stated: "Voluntary euthanasia is murder, however understandable the motives may be".

But Lord Justice Toulson, Mr Justice Royce and Mrs Justice Macur unanimously agreed it would be wrong for the court to depart from the long-established legal position that "voluntary euthanasia is murder, however understandable the motives may be".