Sentence examples for motive at from inspiring English sources

On this new understanding a sense of obligation was not a motive at all, since it involved no desire; to get motivation, one needs in addition a desire to do the right.

"They have the profit motive at heart.

There is "no known motive at this stage", he says.

Gray said there is "no known motive at this stage".

We don't have a precise motive at this point".

JEFFREY TOOBIN: Always very hard to assess the issue of motive at the Court.

We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value.

Some saw economic motives at work.

And there are other motives at work.

But there are other, equally purposeful, motives at work.

But I sensed that there were other motives at work.