These facts alone might qualify as probable motive, but Ms. Seaver's theory is more elaborate.
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.
Mr. Frans said that he doubted the Taliban claim of responsibility, and said the police had told him the probable motive was robbery.
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.
"The information the suspect has given is still being verified, so the authorities are not releasing, for the moment, other information about probable participants or the material and intellectual masterminds of the double homicide, nor their probable motive," said the statement from the Chihuahua state prosecutor's office.
The Mexican government, while condemning acts of aggression against journalists and dismissing the idea of striking truces or negotiating with criminal organizations, highlighted the theory of the run-in on Monday, saying state prosecutors were looking at some personal grievance as the "probable motive".
"The only probable motive for culling greyhounds in these circumstances leads to a conclusion the animals were being killed for no other reason than that they were found to be underperforming after being trialled," Sydney barrister Clive Steirn SC is quoted as saying in a media release by Greyhound Racing NSW.
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.
His enemies note that his new enthusiasm for vouchers (he used to oppose them) will shore up his Republican credentials in his probable run for the Senate next year.Regardless of his motives, most of Mr Giuliani's proposals seem sensible.
