Sentence examples for motive cannot be from inspiring English sources

The murderers remain at large, so their motive cannot be established with certainty, though a fleeing gunman was heard to shout "Allahu akbar", Arabic for "God is great".

Given this possibility, a person's identification with her motives cannot be cashed out in terms of higher-order attitudes of approval and disapproval, or in terms of the rational reflections that typically ground these attitudes.

While their motives cannot be known with any certainty, the votes of these twelve Democrats inevitably raises the problems of legalized corruption that underpin our play-for-pay political system.

The "defense by adversarial motive" approach cannot be trusted.

Conflict, in psychology, the arousal of two or more strong motives that cannot be solved together.

Motives themselves cannot be morally right or wrong.

"The motive for breastfeeding cannot be rooted by offering financial reward.

Egypt, however, had always been a rich and desirable Persian satrapy, exploited by absentee Persian landowners; and thus an economic motive for Athens cannot be excluded.

But Janet Fyle, of the Royal College of Midwives, questioned the initiative: "The motive for breastfeeding cannot be rooted by offering financial reward.

Some commentators regard the diary as a warning against uncritical acceptance of information from sources whose motives and reliability cannot be checked.

The motive of acting virtuously cannot be the standard or basic motive to virtuous action, since, according to Hume, what makes an act virtuous is its expression of a virtuous motive, which in turn reflects a virtuous quality of character (T 477).