Sentence examples for to motive from inspiring English sources

But as to motive, nothing was apparent.

As to motive, why lick the pasta bowl clean?

"We're not discounting any possibilities with regard to motive".

"We are not going to speculate at this time as to motive beyond that," Mr. Suthers said.

As he rolls up to America's first pre-emptive invasion, bouncing from motive to motive, Mr. Bush is trying to sound rational, not rash.

As to motive, his spiritual beliefs had brought him into conflict with science and he may have wanted to humiliate its practitioners.

(Schutz 1964, 87) Besides thus resuscitating a version of homo economicus, Schutz insisted that economists study purposive-rational actions, which, in Weber's sense, involved a reflective comparison of alternative projects before adopting one as an in-order-to motive.

Through such reflectivity, one imagines a project as completed in future perfect tense, that is, what will have been realized after one's acting, and this project, also of central importance for Martin Heidegger and the pragmatist tradition, establishes the "in-order-to motive" of one's action.

Similarly, failure to appreciate temporality often leads to misinterpretations of action, as when one assumes that the outcome of an act may have been its motive without considering the actor's in-order-to motive, which due to unforeseen events may have been adjusted or may have led to results contrary to those intended.

This is a tragedy because it speaks to motives that will never go away.

According to motive-based accounts of evil character, to be an evil person is to be motivated in a certain sort of way.