There are motives galore – enough, certainly, to keep detectives from the Met's Trident group busy for months.
Now, the police are trying to determine who had motive enough to kill Mr. Boulis, whose high-profile empire was built on an eclectic mix of holdings that ranged from resorts for the well-to-do tourist to a submarine sandwich chain.
You'd think that $120 oil would be enough profit motive to spur oil companies to poke holes in every cow pasture.
So the profit motive isn't enough, and there's a legitimate public-sector role.
By contrast, the accumulation of circumstantial evidence, when it points to a single, overwhelming motive, can be enough to allow juries a leap of faith.
Moreover, evidence of the purpose to enhance the value of the bank's portfolio by making misleading submissions is abundantly clear in the various messages exchanged by the traders, so the proof of a strong profit motive may be enough to support the wire fraud charges.
Their motives are clear enough.
It's easy to talk about being good, but human nature's weak, and when things get tough, human motives aren't enough to stop a person.
Of course, the ninety-one cell-phone calls, coupled with motive, were enough to convict Borukhova.
Part of their motive was to raise enough money to cover their liabilities for maintaining underground railway tunnels that passed underneath, so they and their developer partners stacked up their schemes with as much valuable volume as they could.
