Sentence examples for motive need from inspiring English sources

No racial motive need be established, although in many cases it is introduced, and the government may try to uncover such evidence if it exists here.

Well enough - and yet his copy lacks the quality which might explain why the imitation was made; it plods on and gets through, but irony (the probable motive) needed something much better than that.

Popular imagery could "carry" an image more effectively than art: "Indeed, it often seems as if the 'carrier' of a motive needs to be artistically worthless in order that the artist who uses it should feel a greater urge to bring it to perfection".

These interpreters either claim that there is no particular motive needed to evoke approval for conformity to the rules of property — mere behavior is enough (Mackie) — or that we approve of a motivating form of the moral sentiment itself, the sense of duty (Cohon).

But the profit motive needs to be balanced by human (and humane) considerations if we're to be a livable society - or at the very least a survivable one.

Have this mental motive: Needs over wants.

Anyone who suspected Stevens' commitment or motives needn't have waited until 9 February for an answer.

But even ambiguous motives need to be strongly felt, and we never understand what drove Faith to leave home, much less to join up with a gang of German terrorists and then leap from a picturesque Portuguese cliff.

But cricket's primary concern should be its own patch, and though the day-night innovation is essentially driven by commercial interests, the great take-away from the last week is that such transparent motives needn't circumvent mutual benefits, as evidenced by the 123,736 patrons who came through the turnstiles across three days at Adelaide Oval.

The possibility of weakness of will points to the more general fact that an agent's authorization of her own motives need not take the form of the judgment that it would not be better to act otherwise.

Their motives need no explanation; this is a suicide mission by zealots, whose cause deserves no justification.