Sentence examples for low motives from inspiring English sources

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In some ways, his reaction reflects his tendency toward mixing high principles with low motives.

First-rate intelligence reporters like the Times' James Risen, the Post's Dana Priest, and this magazine's Jane Mayer aren't just a pain in the ass, in his view — they have low motives and unfair agendas.

Smith, author of the Orange prize-winning On Beauty, has previously spoken out against the closures, arguing that local libraries were "gateways to better, improved lives" and attacking "the low motives [of the government] as it tries to worm out of its commitment".

Indeed the constant correction of opera's besetting faults, such as com mercialism of management, artistic irresponsibility of singers, and the perpetual weakness of its public, of any public, for mechanized scenery, has been aimed less toward eliminat ing humanity's low motives than at restoring to favor its higher ones.

This finding is contrary to reports about dental students in Iran [ 8] and Britain [ 3] for whom altruism and intellectual challenges were rated low motives for studying dentistry.

Scores 0, 1 and 2 were categorised as low motives while scores 3, 4 and 5 were categorised as strong motives for each of the motive options.

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So according to Mr Fitzgibbons, when Smith mentions "their own interest", he is arguing that "not all occupations are pursued with the same low motive in mind".

The one-dimensional flow models of semi-empirical nature are based on experiments at comparatively low motive pressures and thus on ideal gas equations.

The results show that while differences between turbulence models are typically small with respect to the prediction of global parameters such as ejector inlet mass flow rates and Mass Entrainment Ratio (MER), the k ω SST model generally performs best whereas ε-based models are more accurate at low motive pressures.

But in Wolff's universe, the lowest motives -- to win a contest, to meet a celebrity, to savor the envy and humiliation of your friends -- have a way of serving, however circuitously, the highest ends.

He could only imagine the lowest motives for those in favour of regime-change in Baghdad, and he had a vivid tendency to take any demurral as a personal affront.

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