Sentence examples for first motive for from inspiring English sources
"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%).
Mr. Hill added: Boris has long had a second motive for playing the hacking allegations down.
For the second motive for displacing Saddam is the danger he poses to the wider world.
A second motive for ABC's generosity, perhaps a more important one, may become apparent if the Pythons press their lawsuit further, as it now seems certain they will.
There was a second motive for his most recent trip to Syria – one that may cost him his life – to persuade Isis to spare his friend, Yukawa, who had been captured last August near Aleppo.
A third motive for recent nationalizations may be the belief in some developing countries that state control of various industrial operations is at least temporarily necessary because of the lack of a developed capital market or supply of entrepreneurs in the domestic private sector.
The second motive for my choice of focus on cloze is related to the observation that our understanding of what cloze tests measure is to a great extent based on what types of tests they correlate with.
The third motive for attacking Qatar goes further than that.
