Sentence examples for official motivation from inspiring English sources

The official motivation for his actions, i.e. to defend Russians living in Ukraine, is a sham.

The official motivation to go to war was that the Iraqi regime posed a serious threat to the West because of its weapons of mass destruction.

The official motivation has been to prevent accidental shootings by children and to protect the police from having their own guns turned against them.

The official motivation for this design was based on the fear of negative marginal effects on the work incentives in the phase-out region of the income distribution.

Hunger was the official motivation, according to the police report.

His official motivation was to outmaneuver suspected diplomatic efforts by the British government to promote a general emancipation of slaves in Texas that would weaken the institution of human bondage in the United States.

Mr. Holder said the United States "is committed to holding Iran accountable for its actions" but declined to answer a question about Iranian officials' motivation for the alleged plot.

Critics of SB1 rely on generic suspicion of public officials' motivations and hostility to taxes to carry the day.

The case is meant to stimulate discussion of the moral and ethical dimensions of public office, including not only the question of an official's motivation but of the appropriateness of an elected official advancing causes which are not of any evident moment to his constituents.

But universities and local officials lack motivation to help.In 2002 Ren Zhengshao, then a student in Shanghai, was able to take the gaokao only after submitting a plea to the city government.

A team of Defense Intelligence Agency analysts briefing a senior official on Taliban motivations had reversed the order of the motivations listed in a document of interviews with Taliban members, so as to downplay one that was not in vogue with the intelligence community.