Sentence examples for motives given from inspiring English sources

It is difficult to understand his motives, given he has been a director of Rangers since 2000.

And State Department officials questioned his motives, given that he was bringing along an investigator from the oversight committee, James Lewis, a former Army officer and C.I.A. operative.

For every person who applauds her comeback after giving birth to two children and taking a 14-year hiatus from training, many others wonder about her motives given that she is a long shot to qualify for her fourth Olympics.

Mr. Mroz, Governor Whitman's aide, said that New Jersey was also willing to examine longer-term spending, but he said he was suspicious of the New Yorkers' motives, given their actions over the last five months of the impasse, including holding up votes of most actions and even boycotting a board meeting.

"It is difficult to understand his motives, given he has been a director of Rangers football club since the year 2000.

Subgroup analysis showed some differences in percentages of the motives given during office hours and out-of-hours; however, overall conclusions were not influenced and the order of frequency was unchanged.

Every decision, such as the Leeds children's heart surgery case, raises suspicion about real motives, giving local campaigns national impetus.

Senator McCain, an Arizona Republican, was right of course: whatever the producers' motives, giving a face and a name to each of the 721 dead who had been identified at that moment could hardly be described as sedition.

Hence, landowners' conservation motives give governments a great opportunity to allocate conservation contracts in a more cost effective way, thereby extracting larger benefits for scarce conservation funds.

"I'm sceptical of AGL's motive given they've been campaigning against the renewable energy target, and really this has come too late".

The town's governor, Hildur Odegard Sofie Gråbøll) has motive, given that Stoddart's environmental impact assessment was likely to put the kibosh on her plan for a luxury hotel "hewn out of a glacier".