They may surprise themselves by the insistence of their own high motives and values.
We could still debate the nominee's qualifications, whether with high motives or low.
Like the Americans now, a hundred years ago the English combined political, cultural, economic and military hegemony with a very strong sense of their own virtue and high motives.
Although it was already thought in the 1950s that the second world war had been a decent one fought from high motives, it is hard to grasp today how little was made, in the 15 years following VE Day, of what now seems the defining event of that war – what wasn't yet called the Holocaust.
It risks falsely dignifying these deplorable acts with an undeserved varnish of higher motive.
There is no higher motive involved — with the majority — unless membership in a party because one's father was a member of it is one.
Bosch and his contemporaries believed in the existence of the damned, and those painted, freakish sufferers were vessels of genuine dread, whereas "In Bruges" calls its characters to their final reckoning with no higher motive than to blow them merrily away.
The results also show that the recovered pressure improves to 75 Torr for an off-design condition of higher motive flow rate.
When your spouse's behavior is open to interpretation, ascribe the higher motive.
Beyond love and self-fulfillment, Chmerkovskiy has a higher motive, as well: helping his troubled homeland.
