Sentence examples for former motive from inspiring English sources

Somewhat surprisingly (given the public's cynicism about the former motive), it turns out that enterprises offering shares in retirement plans have lower price volatility and bankruptcy risk than those that don't, says research by the Federal Reserve and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Others suspect other motives.

She is not involved, yet her face appears on television ("former teacher had motive"); the F.B.I. ransacks her home.

Whatever happened to truant officers, those people who used to track down children who played hooky from school? A. When the city was appointing truant officers and establishing institutions for truants (in Brooklyn in the 1850's, one was set up in a former penitentiary), the motive was public safety more than child welfare.

The former are explicit motives and latter are the implicit motives (McClelland1965).

Regardless of the motives, former mates rarely make ideal roommates.

But his Marxist past makes him controversial and his critics note that, unlike those he seeks to represent, he is white-skinned, middle-class and a former university-lecturer.The motives of many of the community leaders opposed to the Zapatists are even more suspect.

I read something a few days ago by a writer who was critical of all the educated guessing about the soon to be former pope's motives and circumstances.

The crucial difference between the hoodie stabbing at the water cannon's tyres and the hoodie leaping out of a smashed up Dixons store in Manchester with a DVD player under his arm is that there is more of a political motive to the former.

Mr Jackson's defence attorney, Thomas Mesereau, attempted to cast doubt on the motive of the former security guard, pointing out that Mr Chacon had mounted a $16m lawsuit against Mr Jackson for wrongful dismissal, but had lost the case and faced paying a share of the $1.4m costs awarded to Mr Jackson.

The motive for the former seems clear.