Sentence examples for motives needed from inspiring English sources

Conversely, Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal has argued that Major Hasan's motives needed no elaborate explication of that kind he was a murderous jihadi.

Anyone who suspected Stevens' commitment or motives needn't have waited until 9 February for an answer.

That toxic scepticism about English motives needs to be understood, if the English are to start building alliances with countries that essentially agree with us about FIFA, but lifted not a finger to help us yesterday.

But even ambiguous motives need to be strongly felt, and we never understand what drove Faith to leave home, much less to join up with a gang of German terrorists and then leap from a picturesque Portuguese cliff.

But cricket's primary concern should be its own patch, and though the day-night innovation is essentially driven by commercial interests, the great take-away from the last week is that such transparent motives needn't circumvent mutual benefits, as evidenced by the 123,736 patrons who came through the turnstiles across three days at Adelaide Oval.

The possibility of weakness of will points to the more general fact that an agent's authorization of her own motives need not take the form of the judgment that it would not be better to act otherwise.

Their motives need no explanation; this is a suicide mission by zealots, whose cause deserves no justification.

Robert Copsey from Digital Spy commended the balladry on Talk That Talk, paying particular attention to "Fool in Love" and "Farewell", writing "anyone questioning her motives need only hear ballads 'Farewell' and 'Fool in Love' to find out not only does she have a heart, but she's without doubt been putting all of it into these past six years".

Well enough - and yet his copy lacks the quality which might explain why the imitation was made; it plods on and gets through, but irony (the probable motive) needed something much better than that.

These interpreters either claim that there is no particular motive needed to evoke approval for conformity to the rules of property — mere behavior is enough (Mackie) — or that we approve of a motivating form of the moral sentiment itself, the sense of duty (Cohon).

Popular imagery could "carry" an image more effectively than art: "Indeed, it often seems as if the 'carrier' of a motive needs to be artistically worthless in order that the artist who uses it should feel a greater urge to bring it to perfection".