Not all cases of killing someone receive equally harsh sentences; a wide variation occurs based on motive and other psychological factors, which do have to be determined in a trial: was it necessity, premeditated, the heat of passion, adequate provocation, etc.? A killing motivated by hatred of an entire group is particularly despicable, and should receive a particularly severe sentence.
She churned over constantly that now it felt like the support she had been given as a candidate was based on motives other than her abilities.
If there were comparisons to be made with the plot of Homeland at the start, Koenig swiftly showed that this was far less black-and-white and based on motives that didn't fit neatly into categories of "good" or "bad".
As the title suggests, these two strangers, Guy and Bruno, meet on a train at the beginning of the book and discuss killing people in each other's lives in order to duck suspicions based on motives.
Eighteen approach-driven participants and 18 avoidance-driven participants were selected based on their motive to achieve success scores and their motive to avoid failure scores.
A murder is a murder: there is no precedent in our legal system to increase the harshness of a sentence based on the motive for the crime.
An Oct. 28 letter about hate-crimes legislation states, "There is no precedent in our legal system to increase the harshness of a sentence based on the motive for a crime".
"Japanese regulators aren't consistent; they seem to make calls based on political motive," said Tadashi Kageyama, senior managing director and head of Asia and Japan for Kroll, a global risk consulting company.
First, these incidents have made it abundantly clear that Daesh is not an Islamic organization at all, but rather transcends classification based on religious motive or ideology.
The structure of this study was based on the motive, purpose and literature reviews, and subsequently hypotheses were formed, a questionnaire was constructed and a sampling survey was conducted.
Indeed, it would seem that if one wishes to perform the mitzvah of, for example, "loving one's neighbor," one ought not to be acting based on ethical motives.
