Sentence examples for wrong motive from inspiring English sources

Van Coller described how most telecoms he'd spoken to had the wrong motive – doing internet banking as a means to keep their sim card in the customer's phone but then "screwing them" on the sim card charges for making a transaction.

Whenever we want power, we usually have the wrong motive.

From the right comes the gripe that they have the wrong motives.

Now, he said, "complexity provides cover for people who may be tempted by the wrong motives".

But in an odd and totally undeserving way, the committee could wind up with the right decision based on the wrong motives.

Green himself claimed the club's demotion had been driven by bigotry and "all the wrong motives," a comment he has now been asked to explain to an independent judicial panel.

It will be a bitter irony if a pretty bad guy, with all the wrong motives, ends up doing the right thing economically, while all the good guys fail because they're too determined to be, well, good guys.

Although he did not directly condemn US-led air strikes against Isis, he argued that American leadership of the military campaign would only worsen the situation, as it would be done for the wrong motives.

Green told BBC Scotland: "Some of it has been driven by bigotry, some of it's been driven by jealousy and some of it's been driven by all the wrong motives".

"Some of it has been driven by bigotry, some of its been driven by jealousy and some of its been driven by all the wrong motives," he said.

"Some of it has been driven by bigotry, some of its been driven by jealousy and some of its been driven by all the wrong motives," Green said.