Let's conjecture (and conjecture is all it is) how it might have looked from the N.S.A.'s angle, given the motives, habits of mind, and customary practices of the personnel of that agency.
He gave the motives and purpose of his leadership new definition; contrasting his willingness to battle vested interests with David Cameron's ease with settled patterns of wealth and power:But the next election isn't just going to be about policy.
In the ordinary case, the agent has both inclination and the moral motive present, with inclination giving the moral motive its object.
Given the fact their motives behind it was to get rid of the high-cost producers out there … [it is] unlikely they will take a U-turn at this time," said Abhishek Deshpande, chief oil market analyst at Natixis.
In a two-part blog for Sojourners, Tracey Bianchi writes skeptically about Wal-Mart's ulterior motive, given the corporation's reputation of using unethical business practices to maximize profits.
That Walmart is one of the few options available to poor customers looking for a cheap bank account is troubling, given the retailer's profit motive, said Wallace Turbeville, a senior fellow at Demos, a progressive think tank.
It may seem insensitive to point this out, given the filmmakers' high-minded motives, but the lack of cinematic imagination narrows both the emotional and intellectual scope of the movies themselves, leaving the viewer feeling vaguely sad, vaguely hopeful and only partly illuminated.
Furthermore, we propose that the focal company's strategic tie choice depends on the knowledge-based, social influence, and institutional benefits and costs that each type of tie offers, given the company's specific motives for tie creation.
And you don't know if they are "normal" or justified motives, given the reality of your situation.
