Sentence examples for motivated effort from inspiring English sources

Ms. Tymoshenko, now the opposition leader, denounced the inquiry as a politically motivated effort by her rival, President Viktor F. Yanukovich, to sideline her.

Maybe the President thinks that he is being subjected to witch hunt, or at least a politically motivated effort to damage him.

Opposition leaders, having effectively shut down much of the country, proclaimed victory, even as critics saw the strike as a politically motivated effort by the B.J.P. to demonstrate its national relevance.

Still, a number of experts have raised serious questions about the authenticity of the case, contending that the Sledgehammer prosecution is a politically motivated effort to neutralize the military.

Mr. Chen has called the charges against him and his wife a politically motivated effort by his opponents, including Taiwan's current president, Ma Ying-jeou, to punish him for his pro-independence views.

Iraq has held elections in recent years amid the threat of violence, and many see the delay as a politically motivated effort by Mr. Maliki to deny the Sunnis their democratic right to vote.

Politically motivated efforts had brought Mr Karzai's tally below 50 per cent, he added.

"At a time of unprecedented global need, successive Australian governments have violated international law in selfish, short-sighted and politically motivated efforts to shift the problem.

Mr. Noboa's aides say the troubles on his hacienda are politically motivated efforts to embarrass him in the midst of a presidential campaign.

Since we were running out of oil anyway, environmentally motivated efforts to limit fossil fuel consumption and increase our use of renewable energy boasted the additional virtue of being inevitable.

But a signature example of overreach was the prosecution, in 2011, of Aaron Swartz, a young digital activist who undertook politically motivated efforts to "free" academic-journal articles, pursuant to an open-access philosophy.