Sentence examples for likely motive from inspiring English sources

Mr. Brinkmann's apartment had been ransacked, and officials said robbery was the most likely motive.

Detectives said they had zeroed in on a likely motive: revenge.

What interested Chesterton was not the least likely suspect but the least likely motive.

On Tuesday the head of the inquiry, DCI Andy Chalmers, said the "most likely motive was sexual''.

The police said over the weekend that she had been beaten to death and that robbery was the most likely motive.

Each wrote that a "likely" motive in bringing detainees to Afghanistan was a desire to evade judicial review of their detention.

Two likely motives are disinterested pious donation for the deity and offering in the hope of obtaining a specific benefit.

The First Crusaders, 1095-1131 (1997) meticulously tracked down every identifiable participant, and sought to reconstruct his likely motives.

Grabbing arms, freeing prisoners and showing strength are among the likely motives.But indirectly, the culprits are the local and federal authorities.

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said in a statement that the five dead included a woman but declined to comment on the likely motives or the identity of the gunman.

After Reggiani was arrested, the media dubbed her Vedova Nera – the Black Widow – and touted all the stereotypical theories about her likely motives.