The manufacturer strives to improve its product quality or to promote its brand because it believes this conduct will lead to increased demand despite higher prices.
The Iranian regime wants its people to believe the Americans will attack, because it believes this will help it hang on to power.
Bahrain's leadership pushed to host the GCC plus 2 because it believes this forum represents the best hope for accomplishing that objective.
America prefers a weak Palestinian negotiating party, because it believes this is the best chance for a deal with an intransigent [Israeli prime minister Binyamin] Netanyahu".
Channel 4 invited Ahmadinejad to speak not because it wants to offer viewers "a different perspective," but because it believes this different perspective is a ridiculous joke, and not something that can ever be implemented with, say, nuclear arms.
The party supports an "orderly" dismantling of the euro zone because it believes this to be in Germany's best interests, but also because it says this would help southern members of the currency bloc that are struggling with crushing recessions and rising unemployment.
While the federal government did provide a compensatory grant in lieu of resource rights, Alberta sought control over the resources not only because it believed that this would yield higher revenues than the grant, but out of sheer pride.
Now, let's not beat about the bush: UBS did not pay this because it believed it was innocent of all charges levelled against it.
It has done this because it believed that no competent "grown-up" -- intellect, emotions, spirit -- had taken charge.
Burger King's franchises representation group, The National Franchise Association (NFA), sought to block this because it believed that any money raised from the issue would not be put into helping bolster the then flagging BK, but would instead end up being used to help Diageo bolster its liquor brands.
