Sentence examples for which motive from inspiring English sources

For every virtue, therefore, there must be some non-moral motive that characteristically motivates actions expressive of that virtue, which motive, by eliciting our approval, makes the actions so motivated virtuous.

Their leaders are testing which motive is stronger, with each side insisting that the other will cry uncle first.

Even though the natural law theorists tended to assimilate virtue to continence, they still admitted that that there was an area of moral life in which motive and character mattered.

Its remarkably complex conceits yield a remarkably callow film, in which motives are as simple and highlighted as if sketched in a scriptwriting class, and the near-futuristic society that's depicted with a vast armamentarium of physical and computer effects is narrowed to a B-movie thinness.

From one page to the next, it's never clear which motives will hold sway over Lovelace ("This cursed aversion to wedlock, how it has entangled me!") or how Clarissa, with her delicate pride and shifting perceptions, will respond to him.

So a self-governing agent does not merely endorse her motives: her endorsements are implicit claims about which motives have the support of her reason.

In Section 2, we get sufficient conditions which guarantee the extinction of the first or second species in system which motives us to investigate the stability property of the rest species.

We investigate how gene-environment interactions generate the large difference in the information measure of gene-environment interactions between the general population and a diseased population, which motives us to develop mutual information-based statistics for testing gene-environment interactions.

We have also studied which motives people who smoke and use snus (combination users) give for their use of snus.

But the case of the nanny, in which a motive seemed entirely unclear, swept the others away.

This makes a prior sexual relationship between them possible, which confers motive on Abigail and tragic force on John.