Many were simply motivated by poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
Yet Lee isn't simply motivated by the desire to enhance himself.
This flurry of activity hasn't been simply motivated by their desire to communicate what it is really like working in the oldest profession in the world.
"You do what you can to prevent tragedies," he said, "but unfortunately, people simply motivated by the desire to cool off can jeopardize their lives.
The fact that one of the boys' friends was murdered simply motivates the story; the focus is rather how people have to find a way to get along, even if it means absolving people of murder.
But it goes on to claim that Branca and McClain "have disregarded the terms of the agreement, as well as Michael's wishes for his fans, because [they] are simply motivated by the biggest payday".
"[I]f historians were simply motivated by a strong collective liberal bias, they might be expected to call Bush the worst president since his father, or Ronald Reagan, or Nixon," he writes.
I hope that you believe you are acting in good faith; that you are simply motivated by the need to respond to the threats of terrorism and organised crime and the nuisance of anti-social behaviour, but I wonder if you have any idea of the cumulative effect of the 15 or so bills which have incrementally removed or compromised our liberties.
It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent".It's possible that Mr Obama's comments really were simply motivated by a "desire to vent".
At the sentencing, Mr Justice Fulford said Flattley did not care what effect his activities would have on the individuals whose privacy he invaded and that he was "simply motivated by personal profit from the sale of what he, no doubt, believed was a good story".
