Sentence examples for true motive from inspiring English sources

What was really transparent was the Republicans' true motive.

"The true motive is corporate profit," he wrote.

But his lawyer's statement could reflect Mr. Lay's true motive.

The suspicion is that revenue-raising, not congestion-fighting, is the true motive there.

He said he thought its true motive might be to attract donors.

They insisted that their true motive was not greed but justice.

Are land-use objections sometimes raised by opponents whose true motive is bigotry?

And it provokes a negative response, irrespective of the true motive.

Mr. Bloomberg insists that his true motive is to encourage teenagers to stay away from cigarettes.

It was only later, he said, that he realized the true motive.

They don't even get the clever one-liners or villain's death-postponing, true-motive-revealing monologue that all thriller fans — regardless of race — have come to anticipate as genre traits.