Sentence examples for motive upon from inspiring English sources

And so prosecutors in the Bierenbaum case have been piling threat upon threat, motive upon motive, bad deed upon bad deed.

Keeping things interesting, Josef ― this time using a different moniker and disclosing his supposed childhood biography ― informs Sara of his motive upon her arrival.

for Turkey, there is also a pecuniary motive — billions upon billions in unredeemed construction contracts signed with the old regime….

There's no disclosure, so the folks watching the ad can't make a judgment based upon motive when you say it's paid for by so-and-so".

Questioning of this account must be based on inconsistent objective data, not on someone else's account of motives for agreed-upon acts.

The expectancy-value model of achievement motivation proposes that the overall tendency to achieve in a particular situation depends upon two stable motives a motive for success and a motive to avoid failure and the subjective evaluation of the probability of success in the situation.

Gioardano's financial woes were seized upon as a possible motive for killing her.

Humor occurs "if there is a situation in which, according to our usual habits, we should be tempted to release a distressing affect and if motives then operate upon us which suppress that affect in statu nascendi [in the process of being born]….

Explaining the motive behind his actions, Stephens said: "He fixated upon Gatwick Airport.

Contribution to scientific research was for 5 of the 12 participants their main motive for participation in the trial, sometimes conditional upon other motives (J, L, T, U, Z).

Upon their arrival, the pair discovered an ulterior motive behind their recruitment: the scarcity of prospective brides on the frontier.