Sentence examples for central motive from inspiring English sources

Our key premise is that the central motive driving the process often described as 'financialization' or financial innovation is the sabotage instinct of finance operating as business.

Contrary to Blair's protestations, government documents released this week spell out how Iraqi oil was a central motive behind the war.

But the central motive is the obvious one: to get away from people who are trying to blow your head off or stick a bayonet through you.

The central motive for the war, the film suggests, is a desire to protect the ties of the Bush family and their inner circle to Saudi Arabian oil money.

Indeed, a central motive of the book is to challenge the Yale historian Paul Kennedy's theory of "imperial overstretch" as a source of superpower decline, which he made in his 1987 best seller, "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000".

Although the American withdrawal has removed one central motive for the jihadis who flooded into Iraq after the invasion in 2003, Al Qaeda's Iraqi arm has carried out a number of spectacular bombings over the past year, and some intelligence analysts fear it is in resurgence.

The fact that most civil conflicts cleave along ethnic, racial and class categories is usually taken as sufficient evidence that these are the central motives.

When the space of interiority becomes a guiding authority, the individual must detect and distinguish central impulses, feelings and wishes from ones that are less central or conflict with one's central motives.

Though it may now have degenerated into an instrument of oppression and intolerance and tends to perpetuate inequality and develop the spirit of exclusiveness, these unfortunate effects were not the central motives of the varna system.

Helping behaviour and altruism are central motives.

In fact, the central stated motive of the campaign is "focused on building awareness and sales of fresh produce, seafood, and other Florida products". There's that word again.