Sentence examples for immediate motive from inspiring English sources

Investigators offered no immediate motive for the attack.

There was a more immediate motive for the timing of the Declaration.

The authorities had no immediate motive for the killings, and neighbors said there had been no signs of trouble.

But they cast his immediate motive as a desire to resolve an embarrassing dispute over summer school.

Investigators have offered no immediate motive and the gunman's body remained inside the theater several hours later.

He was opposed to the Mexican war, and it is well known that his firmness on the subject of the extension of slavery in the territories was the immediate motive for the secession of the South.

As more immediate motives for the violence, Balakian mentions budding nationalism on both sides, Armenian demands for rights, the Ottoman empire's panic at its progressive loss of territory, jealousy of the Armenians' financial success and profits from confiscation of their property, Islamic fundamentalism and the great powers' reluctance to intervene.

Mr Malema's immediate motives - his need to get rid of Mr Zuma and to engineer his own return to the ANC - are obvious.

Car thieves report a range of motivations for stealing cars including financial motives such as theft-for-export or an immediate need for cash, mundane or routine motives such as transportation, and recreational motives such as a search for excitement, prestige or status (Copes 2003 Dhami 2008 Kellett and Gross 2006 Lantsman 2013 Light et al. 1993).

There was no immediate word on the motive might have been for the attack.

A police spokesperson said there were no immediate implications of a motive and that investigators are following "all avenues" as forensic tests and interviews are carried out.