Sentence examples for all motive from inspiring English sources

Hereafter, all motive of detraction of him would cease to exist, and Abraham Lincoln would take his place with Washington, Jefferson, and Adams, among the benefactors of his country and the human race".

In addition, there's the systematic division into distinctively styled neighborhoods (a.k.a. suburbs), the trauma of parents with unresolved conflicts, and the teens' resulting suspicion of parents and their over-all motives.

His hubris at stepping on so precious a shade gives his wife Clytemnestra all the motive she needs for killing him in his bath moments later.

Modern Western philosophers, following Aristotle's account of the unity of motivation (DA 433a30-b13) and Augustine's counting all motives as loves of the will (but often ignoring the pluralism about kinds of motive on which they and their traditions equally insisted), have often treated 'desire' as including all motivation and as of a single kind to be explained on the same pattern.

Police said the matter is still under investigation and all motives are being considered.

Because Wolfe ascribes all motives to obvious self-interest, I think he often misses the subtleties of hypocrisy.

Maybe it was the hot light of liquidation, in the glare of which all motives seem laid bare.

The moment tiptoes toward a disturbing truth -- that a waning of cruelty feels like kindness -- and conveys the deformation, under such extreme pressures, of all motives and feelings.

All motives are in keeping with the current recessionary spirit, and last weekend garage buyers and sellers were out in force in places like League City, Tex.

Daily social and coping motives as well as all motives measured at baseline were unassociated with AmED use.

While Mill does argue that not all motives are egoistic and self-interested, he nonetheless held that in most affairs of economics and government such motives are dominant.