Sentence examples for rightly motivated from inspiring English sources

Mr. Perez, in a letter to Mr. Paterson, said his decision to retire was not based on the attorney general's investigation or his own actions in the case, which he said were "honest and rightly motivated".

In agreement with early Stoic thought about the universe as a large living being with parts, Seneca thinks that we are rightly motivated to study nature nature is the large entity of which we are parts.

I was mocked for being "fat" in grade school, and my mother — though I know her intentions for me have always been rightly motivated — still to this day makes derogatory comments about her own frame and finds it appropriate whenever she sees me to look me up and down before happily exclaiming that I "still look good".

Patients may encounter health institutions and providers who are unwilling to honor what they may regard as impractical or discriminatory preferences for same-sex or same race caregivers, preferences sometimes motivated rightly or wrongly by modesty concerns.

But Ms. Sebelius arbitrarily ruled that girls 16 and under would need prescriptions, an act that Judge Edward Korman, of the Eastern District of New York, rightly condemned as "politically motivated, scientifically unjustified and contrary to agency precedent".

Most Taylor works rightly prompt argument.

"The Gospel vs. H.R. 4437" (editorial, March 3) rightly identified charity as the virtue that motivated Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles to speak out against the House bill H.R. 4437, some parts of which would expand the definition of "alien smuggling" dramatically.

It's tough for teachers to inspire dramatic policy change in our challenged higher education system because, often rightly so, they are accused of being motivated by self-interest.

Santa is out-of-touch and supremely unappreciative of Steve's efforts, and Grandsanta seems to be solely motivated by pride and indignation at rightly being put out to pasture.

People motivated by this second fear will act rightly out of fear of losing material goods or fear of the torments of hell, but not out of good or right intention: "he does not merit grace who serves not his love of justice but his love of things or his fear of punishment" (Sen 261.23-25).

Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was rightly skeptical; any people who believe in their country will be motivated to defend it.