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the ulterior
adjective
Situated beyond, or on the farther side.
Exact(38)
The form seems impervious to the ulterior motives behind the swollen quality of many serious novels.
The fears of civil society about the ulterior motives of the private sector are not conspiratorial, they are thoroughly justified.
It was best to gravitate towards them early, before the prime minister got there, so the ulterior motive wasn't insultingly obvious.
My father also had the ulterior motive that squash could provide the extra help I definitely needed to get into his alma mater, Yale.
He wrote that "games nearly always are destructive, inasmuch as their dynamic is ulterior, and the ulterior quality is the antithesis to intimacy".
Mike Forbes, 27, a classmate of Ms. Scott's and then a junior, similarly focused on the city's neediest cases, deciding to design the Ulterior Survival Bag, which transforms into a boot.
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The book's main strength may be its tunnel-vision hold on the artist's drives and desires and the shifting ulterior motives that characterized most of his dealings.
The main ulterior motive for these therapies is that by intervening into molecular mechanisms the treatment resistance of cancer cells may be overcome, and an amplification of the RCHT-response might be achieved.
She wrote, "The purpose of a trial is to render justice, and nothing else; even the noblest ulterior purposes".
The total polyphenol content was calculated using the FC reagent and Na2CO310%%; ulterior the maximum absorption was evaluated by the obtained coloration, in relation to the calibration curve.
"International society, instead of losing confidence and patience, should support Annan's peace plan and not propagate 'Annan's plan is dead' around the world out of ulterior motives," the official commentary said.
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