Sentence examples for false motives from inspiring English sources

"It is impossible for us to remain silent in face of this extremely intentional decision taken on false motives," Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said in a televised statement.

Without a similarly widely accepted narrative, Hill was vulnerable to detractors supplying their own readings — imputing false motives, insinuating psychological problems, and smearing her, as the American Spectator notoriously did, as "a bit nutty and a bit slutty".

Herrmann appeared to implicitly criticise Angela Merkel's strategy during the refugee crisis when he said that security agencies in his state were having to cope with the possibility of refugees entering the country under false motives, "a constellation that would have been unimaginable until recently".

The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached.

Sin, Merton asserted, was the result when the false self existed because of ego-perpetuated desires and false motives.

And while I welcome criticism of my work, I object to being defined; if false ideas, motives or deeds are attributed to me, I bristle.

Brody and Carrie both had false and clashing motives for having an affair, yet they experienced a shared moment of true love.

The junior detective genre is attractive to writers because its conventional tropes – withheld information, mysterious motives, false identities, red herrings – mirror adolescent experience in the baffling, adult-controlled world.

I'm looking for what they are really aiming for". Perhaps the answer lies in false inference of motive, which may itself be a function of biology.

On the other hand, under either the view that the strongest motive is the strongest animal motive, or the view that the strongest motive is the strongest rational motive, it is false that people always act on the strongest motive, thinks Reid.

The pure fabrication is a kind of forgery that defies classification, often because there is no false attribution and the motives are difficult to ascertain.