The phrase "driven by motive" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to indicate a situation in which one is motivated by an external factor or goal. For example, "The success of the project was driven by motive to improve the local economy."
The businessmen-scientists who are biotechnology's entrepreneurs often seem driven by motives more complex than a mere desire to make money, especially when they are trying to find treatments for disease.
Driven by motives ranging from charity to profit to a renewed "white man's burden," the western world has during the past half century poured money into the African continent to combat these ills.
There's always the risk that the other person is driven by motives you don't share.
For cadets who did not have primarily internal motivations even if they were equally driven by internal motives and external motives such as getting a good job or becoming physically fit their chances of graduating were worse than average, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Like Carrefour, which had $70 billion in sales last year, they would be driven by one motive, said Mark Husson, food retailing analyst at Merrill Lynch: bragging rights.
It is crucially important that CRI (and others) should prepare to face that competition with the best offer, otherwise we will live in the long shadow of organisations driven by a motive that is neither benign nor charitable.
F1FO ATP synthases catalyze the synthesis of ATP from ADP and inorganic phosphate driven by ion motive forces across the membrane.
However, compared to the peritrichous flagella observed in E. coli, the polar flagellum in P. aeruginosa is driven by sodium motive force and may then propel the bacterium at relatively high speeds towards the membrane.
Kin co-residence in the Netherlands during the period of our analysis was primarily driven by altruistic motives to help kin, in particular those who were in need of help, and by rational motives, in particular in the eastern regions where co-residence was associated with inheritance practices (Kok and Mandemakers 2010).
By contrast, patenting is driven by commercialization motives, and standardization is mainly fostered by intrinsic motivation.
