Sentence examples for better motive from inspiring English sources

(What better motive could there be than that?).

The love of humanity has to be a better motive for intervention than the love of God, you would think.

Regarding the libretto as implausible – social history is clearly not his strong point - Konwitschny decides Violetta needs a better motive, so Germont pere (Anthony Michaels-Moore) becomes an abusive father against whom she defends the girl in sisterly solidarity.

In fact, this year their theme is "Live & Love Middle East", and it couldn't come at a better time, with a better motive.

Do not venture the fig-leaf of charitable works – the non-zealous do these too, and for better motives.

Bush's "better motives" quote comes from Graham Greene's The Quiet American, a searing attack on US foreign policy set in Saigon in 1952.

Foreigners hold United States currency for the same reasons Americans do and may have better motives for doing so, especially in countries suffering severe financial problems such as Cyprus and Greece.

Lawmakers seeking to resolve this crisis must get back to basics and a Madisonian conception of government, who famously opined that when structured correctly one could compel the "defect of better motives" in politicians.

"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," he quoted from the book, criticizing Mr. Greene for portraying an American character as naïve and dangerous.

But he quoted from Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American, the words "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused", implying that, with the benefit of hindsight, they were wrong, just as critics of the Iraq war will later seen to be misguided.

It coexists with my better motives.