Stanislav Levchenko, for example, a defector from the K.G.B., described a quartet of motives called MICE": motivation, ideology, coercion and ego.
Since their launch, people have questioned their motives, called them a flop, and found every avenue they can to try to discredit the entire operation.
The Bcl-2 family of proteins are critical for the intrinsic mitochondrial apoptotic pathway and are characterized by shared structural motives, called Bcl-2 homology (BH) domains.
The Bcl-2 family comprises a number of cell death- and survival-promoting proteins that are characterized by certain structural motives, called Bcl-2 homology (BH) domains.
Mr. Steets has denied any such motive, calling the criticisms "naïve and overly suspicious".
The state's chief minister, Narendra Modi, dismissed the letters found on the attackers' bodies as evidence of motive, calling them a red herring meant to "misguide" investigators.
The conductor and composer Ernö Rapée followed the same line, writing that Wagner's "method of investing each one of his characters with a certain motive, called 'Leit Motiv' and applying this motive at every appearance of the character, but in different shadings to suit the surrounding conditions, is the one which can best be applied in scoring pictures".
You could question his motives, and call him a publicity seeker, or an idiot.
"I will die in a ditch to the right for media groups to question my motives, to call to task the sport I'm currently head of.
"And you have to question his motives for calling one when the Legislature is out of session".
