Beyond the mere profit motive, which clearly excites him, there is the fact that Texan oil has been on the wane since it peaked at 10m barrels a day in 1973, and is already down to half that amount.
Directed by Buddy Giovinazzo, a graduate of the College of Staten Island's film program, this is one uncompromising picture, a movie so eccentric and so relentless that no mere profit motive could possibly explain it.
Benevolence is defined as the sincerity of the vendor in placing priority on the best interest of consumers, in contrast to a mere profit motive.
Some observers see a more sinister motive than mere do-goodery, linking Britain on the Move's surprising breach of the Street's editorial defences to the recent sizeable reduction in ITV's tax burden.
In the present context we can understand PSR as demanding that there be some reason for God's creating the world in one way rather than another since "A mere will without any motive, is a fiction, not only contrary to God's perfection, but also chimerical and contradictory" (Fourth Paper, paragraph 2; G VII.371 2/Alexander 36).
However, even if we were to allow for the sake of argument that such a contentious accusation might be true -- and in reality we shouldn't, at least not without concrete evidence -- the mere fact that their motive is not perhaps completely pure does not invalidate their actions.
Conspiracy theorists fail when they try to determine policy motives from a mere observation of policy effects.
However, complainants' motives are not mere or pure altruism, as the interviews with complainants showed.
Neither the joys of heaven nor hell's worst prospects provide as forceful a motive as the mere emptiness of the world.
Moreover, mere capability doesn't provide motive.
