Sentence examples for supposed motive from inspiring English sources
A correction in this space last Sunday misstated the supposed motive the book advanced for the murder.
Maharaj's supposed motive — resentment over the breakup of a business partnership and wounded vanity over an unflattering newspaper portrayal — is convoluted by comparison.
The supposed motive for this might have been primarily to stop the passengers using mobile phones, once the plane descended to a much lower altitude.
His background and his supposed motives.
And senior politicians like Gove are equally happy to promote it – and when challenged, resort to ad hominem attacks on the supposed motives of "experts" who are simply trying to do their job.
"And, in the more immediate future, our courts will be faced with the unworkable task of determining when this President's supposed religious motive has sufficiently dissipated so as to allow executive action toward these or other majority-Muslim countries".
Kepler supposed that the motive power (or motive species) radiated by the Sun weakens with distance, causing faster or slower motion as planets move closer or farther from it.
Stalin's apologists during that same period excused his mass murders because communist motives were supposed to be for the common good – improving the lot of the downtrodden and modernizing a backward empire.
Stalin's apologists during that same period excused his mass murders be-cause communist motives were supposed to be for the common good – improving the lot of the downtrodden and modernizing a backward empire.
Mulan's motives are supposed to be tied to filial piety, but the movie's climactic moment where she is recognized by the emperor and bowed to by the crowd is too individualistic for a movie based on a traditional Chinese folk tale.
Edmund Morris, the author of the recent "biography" of President Ronald Reagan, lied about his participation in Reagan's life (motive: seeking a supposed higher literary truth).
