Sentence examples for motive at work from inspiring English sources

Others say there is a more sinister motive at work, because to remember is to hold to account, and the Communist Party doesn't want that.

Suddenly we're right?" Mr. Aravosis and other critics of Chief Ramsey see another motive at work in his sudden declaration of an emergency: job protection.

But there may be another motive at work here: providing free screening brings in new cancer patients, and cancer generates profits.

You may not have heard of it yet, but there is a similar motive at work behind Smarterer.

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.

But there may be darker motives at work.

This gets to the nub of the political motives at work.

Though Newhouse built Condé Nast with ruthless commercial motives - when someone asked him about the purpose of his company, his answer was, simply, "To make money" - there are clearly other motives at work.