Sentence examples for seemed driven only by from inspiring English sources

But House Speaker John Boehner, who seemed driven only by a desire to keep his job for another year or so (he's announced his plan to retire in 2015), put the lie to that narrative on Oct. 8, when he said that there was no "grand bargain" on the table, merely a desire to cut government spending further, avoid tax increases and put "points on the board".

These days the anti-tax movement seems driven only by a carefully selective sentimentality -- one that weeps for children of multimillionaires who don't get their full inheritance, but tells poor mothers to go out and get a job.

Jowell and Caborn's resolve was also strengthened by disaffection among supporters with the spectacle of a sport, at the top level, seeming to be driven only by a lust for money.

Politically apathetic, he is driven only by lust.

Today, the economy of Khajuraho is driven only by tourism.

The cars should be driven only by civil servants.

"The wheels are driven only by electric power.

Yet every gesture seemed driven by musical insight.

So far, he's seemed driven by the negative passion of stopping Republican extremism.

Both sides seem driven more by politics than real threats.

And yet the narrator seems driven insane by living under such constraints.