Sentence examples for motive less from inspiring English sources

The new rule is based around a simple motive: less kicking; more creative attacking set plays.

The other conspirators have various motives, less honourable and more straightforwardly political than Brutus's.

But as the plot kicks in, the play becomes more conventional, and its characters' choices and motives less organic (2 50).

He is more wary of reporters and their motives, less comfortable in a culture that celebrates his sport for only a fortnight every four years.

But whereas plenty of attention has been given to pirates' own economic motives, less has been paid to the question of why influential local clans put up with the marauders in their midst.

Exhibiting an ingenuousness and lack of worldly wisdom, he became a tool in the hands of John of Gaunt (1340 99), Duke of Lancaster and a younger son of Edward III, who, from motives less scrupulous than those of Wycliffe, was opposed to the wealth and power of the clergy.

But in another, his motive is less flattering.

The company's motive was less philanthropic than competitive.

Young men are already more likely to break the law than most; having more free time, more motive and less to lose hardly discourages them.

But his next comment, which came after the driver of a flatbed truck stopped to pick up a flag and hoist it, suggested a motive somewhat less altruistic.

It has done so repeatedly over the calamitous past century, and the evidence suggests that the motive has less often been shallow vanity than patriotism and good intentions.