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Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.

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However, a major result of the Finnish twin studies related to motives confirmed the importance of motivational factors in separating leisure-time physical activity behavior.

Although not the most commonly reported motivations, many participants in the cross-sectional survey subscribed to motives such as to change someone's mind, to make someone sorry, to show how much I care, to show helplessness – which appear to be acts of communication with a significant other.

But anti-Humeans claim that they can explain away these differences by showing either that differential motivation is in fact due to other differences in belief or to motives that compete with and override the desires generated by moral beliefs (Shafer-Landau 2003, 129 130).

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

By claiming that duty was intuitive, he suggested that "good," which pertains to motives, and "right," which pertains to acts, are indefinable and irreducible terms.

Golden-tongued singers and sweet-sounding musicians played and sang to motives [melodic figures] in Persian style, to Arab melodies according to Turkish practice and with Mongol voices, following Chinese laws of singing and Altai metres.

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Therefore, Schutz attempted first to clarify social reality, described in depth by his own phenomenology of the social world, and to indicate how actors sustain that reality by understanding each other's in-order-to motives in typical terms (e.g., going to school, making a purchase, marrying).

After reviewing the main characteristics of CCIs, a conceptual framework is developed to classify motives to trademark and motives not to trademark for firms in these industries.

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".

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