Sentence examples for bad motive from inspiring English sources

If the debt secured by a mortgage be justly due, it is no defense to a foreclosure that the mortgagee was animated by hostility or other bad motive.

You speak as if wanting to release an NHS bed, letting your weary children off the hook of looking after you, were a bad motive but I think those are rather good motives, they're altruistic.

Utilitarianism also differs from ethical theories that make the rightness or wrongness of an act dependent upon the motive of the agent, for, according to the utilitarian, it is possible for the right thing to be done from a bad motive.

It was easier to take out Saddam -- and burnish Mr. Bush's credentials as a slam-dunk "war president," suitable for a "Top Gun" victory jig -- than to shut down Al Qaeda and smoke out its leader "dead or alive". But just as politics are a bad motive for choosing a war, so they can be a doomed engine for running a war.

Prosecutors alleged a similar bad motive in the case of Kiriakou: By their telling, the former CIA officer wanted to raise his profile so he could get consulting work and sell a book, so he leaked classified information, including the name of a CIA operative involved in the agency's controversial interrogation methods.

In effect, there is no such thing as a good or bad motive.

The problem is that this approach to faith (and cooking) flies in the face of all the rest of human experience which is a matter of trial and error, mixed motivations, sincerity seesawing with bad motives and healthy doubts about everything we encounter.

"He didn't have bad motives," the executive said.

"They didn't do it with bad motives," he said.

Mr. Perry is also being accused of bad motives.

They would instead grow more likely to impute bad motives or pathologies to people on the right.