Sentence examples for whose motive is from inspiring English sources

A minority, he said, are calculating killers, whose motive is instrumental: cashing in on an insurance policy, for example.

We should allow for the reasonable inspection of documents during divorce, and shield lawyers with a public interest defence from the unfairness of holding them responsible for the acts of those whose motive is to discover the truth.

Indeed DARPA, whose motive is to encourage as many engineers as possible to think about the problem of robotics, with a view to "demanning" a large part of America's army over the next decade or two, plans to run the competition again in 2006.

After seeing off some minor hoodlums, one of them in a pit patrolled by komodo dragons, he discovers the villain, a laughing lunatic called Silva (Javier Bardem), a suave Hannibal Lecter type whose motive is revenge against MI6 for not appreciating him.

Existing telecommunications players have little reason to change because, as Crawford says, they're for-profit businesses whose motive is to make money in the most efficient way possible.

The chief villains were right-wing paramilitary groups, whose motive was in part to wrest territory from the left-wing guerrillas of the FARC.When a security build-up under Álvaro Uribe, Colombia's president from 2002 to 2010, reduced the FARC to smaller bands in remote areas, some 30,000 paramilitaries demobilised, formally at least.

Even if they concede that torture is a war crime and buy the practical arguments against it - that it generates false information, endangers US soldiers should they be taken prisoner and is disastrous for America's image and diplomatic efforts - many Americans would still resist prosecuting officials whose motive was averting terror attacks.

Mountjoy's initiative was backed by then-incumbent Gov. Pete Wilson, whose motive was to use S.O.S. as a wedge issue to rile up his white, Anglo base, thereby reviving an anemic re-election bid.

I know some of them whose motives were revenge.

And there are surely senators and representatives whose motives are base or, broadly speaking, corrupt.

Who wants to watch our husbands typing furiously to women whose motives are unknown to us?