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The juror Ronnie Sesso, a 53-year-old youth advocate at the Administration for Children's Services in Manhattan, summed the motive up as "a need for greed".

In Clementi's case, the magazine's Ian Parker chalked the harasser's motives up to "shiftiness and bad faith," the kinds of things that criminal statutes can't easily be invoked to cover.

But whatever their motives, up until the last moment IS insisted that the Yazidis were slaves and would not be ransomed.

Leave your motives up to others' imaginations.

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The reason why the government decided to deny the permit is the whole point here.This confusion about the salience of motive came up in the torture debates of the last decade all the time, as well.

Rick Scott, convinced that the nonprofit hospital industry was ripe for the changes that would come from a profit motive, set up Columbia, at age 34, with $125,000, beginning his acquisitions process with two leveraged buyouts of El Paso, Tex.

But if it lands in the other person's favor, then they might see what being fair would cost them, and their self-interested motives end up outweighing their initial moral motivation.

Is there a predisposition in those kids, or are their motives bound up tightly with other drives?

So popular was the first Job Expo that promoters with less than altruistic motives showed up for yesterday's affair.

Although Morgen doesn't explicitly speculate about the reasons behind Cobain's suicide, in the interviews a few possible motives come up.