Sentence examples for probable motive from inspiring English sources

These facts alone might qualify as probable motive, but Ms. Seaver's theory is more elaborate.

Investigators are focusing on revenge as the probable motive in the killing, but officers here today said that threats from drug dealers would not cow them.

But prosecutors in Ucayali province say the probable motive for the murder was that Arévalo's son Julían allegedly owed him about 14,000 Peruvian soles ($4,324).

Mr. Frans said that he doubted the Taliban claim of responsibility, and said the police had told him the probable motive was robbery.

Scotland Yard on Tuesday said there was enough evidence to have charged Zalkalns had he lived and the probable motive for his crime was sexual.

Suffolk County investigators are focusing on revenge as the probable motive for the car-bombing death of a highly decorated county narcotics detective outside his home in North Patchogue.

Also it is not easy or pleasant to speculate on the probable motives of the Soviet-bloc leaders.

Despite Massino's horrific past and his probable motives to "cooperate" with the authorities in giving testimony (although he testified that such motives did not include his own desire to avoid the death penalty), it is our experience that the overwhelming majority of prosecutors offer "rat" testimony only if they actually believe it themselves.

But Ms. Schiff seems to have inhaled everything there is to know about Cleopatra and her times, and she uses her authoritative knowledge of the era — and her instinctive understanding of her central players — to assess shrewdly probable and possible motives and outcomes.

Furthermore, the students were asked about their motives for probable body donation.

He was also armed". David Sweetman, a leading British art historian, says it was possible, but not probable: "Gauguin had no particular motive to cut off his ear.