Sentence examples for motive would be from inspiring English sources

Al Gore, well regarded for speaking out all year with no political motive, would be draftable.

If the shooter had mentioned ISIS, the motive would be deemed political; if he were nonwhite, it would be racial.

He keeps saying that he is making this film to help the good people in it and any other motive would be "a corruption" of that.

In this richly ambiguous structure, the newly introduced motive would be regarded by the criterion of key, as the second subject; in purely thematic terms, it might almost be said to constitute the beginning of the codetta, or concluding section.

The media would surely demonize such an individual, but his wealth motive would be our gain.

It was specifically predicted that weight management motive would be explained by body mass index in males, and by body size discrepancy in females, but this pattern would be less pronounced in younger than in older adolescents.

This time his motives would be different.

Forcing an "honest admission out of Mr. Geithner" about his motives "would be a helpful, even cathartic, development," The New Republic's estimable Noam Scheiber wrote in a Times Op-Ed.

Schwartz thought about publishing an article describing his reservations about Trump, but he hesitated, knowing that, since he'd cashed in on the flattering "Art of the Deal," his credibility and his motives would be seen as suspect.

Under this circumstance, incentive for business as well as transaction motives would be in balanced form for future investment at day-to-day normal profit.

For instance, even the feasibility of a research design that is capable of empirically separating out our basic from our non-basic motives would be a serious challenge.