Sentence examples for motive cause from inspiring English sources

Borges's stories, he insisted, "so completely transcend their motive cause that the biographical facts become, in the deepest and most literal way, irrelevant".

There is little to say about the original animus or "motive cause" of the boy's desire to press his lips to every square inch of his own body.

"We were able to discover patterns emerging in several aspects of Christie's novels, trends formed when we grouped our data via year, detective, gender of culprit, motive, cause of death.

He propounded a physical theory of "everything-in-everything," and claimed that nous (intellect or mind) was the motive cause of the cosmos.

These motives cause it to be stigmatized as equivalent to a protective tariff.

After the hearings on Friday, administration officials disputed the notion that politics or other motives caused the changes.

Various motives caused the fall of Satan, according to varied non-biblical books that constructed the devil's biography: the devil's envy of God, the devil's injured pride, the devil's ambition.

Law enforcement officials said they had not determined a motive or cause for the attack.

Oshima — a salesman, 32, with a medium build, square face and caterpillar brows — was reported missing in April 1965, having disappeared, "motive and cause unknown".

Some suggest that there is more to this case than meets the eye, and that Samina Malik had both the means and the apparent motive to cause major disruption in her workplace of Heathrow airport.

The "closely examining" language was not intended to suggest that Asperger's accounted for the motive or cause, but that law enforcement officials had been told he had Asperger's and were trying to understand his condition and his behavior.