Sentence examples for first motive from inspiring English sources

Sadly, his first motive reduced the credibility of his second.

"Profit is the first motive for a commercial business and it always must be so," he said, just in case anyone thought he was going soft.

Noah is apathetic, lacks vivacity, yet God, in choosing him, shows an irrationality we have seen before in Genesis (favouring Abel's offering over Cain's and setting up the first motive for murder, for example).

The first motive for admission was respiratory causes (308, 28.9%) Other principal motives were post-surgery (186, 17.5%) post cardiac surgery procedures (160, 15.1%), neurologic causes (116, 10.9%).

Even for a single color of the fan, a shadow by wrinkles, when spreading, shows varied colors, becoming the first motive of this work.

Answers about their first motive of concerns were categorized and compared with regards to age, gender, birth order, age of onset, delay in seeking professional advice, and delay in diagnosis.

It certainly excites a base already primed to believe that everything the President does has some apologetic, blame-America-first motive behind it, if not worse.

So the second motive was literary.

A third motive seems to involve a sense of disenfranchisement.

Mr. Hill added: Boris has long had a second motive for playing the hacking allegations down.

A second motive could be that NGOs are often seen as a trusted source of information.