motive

Example Sentences

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It accounts not just for the offense and its elements but also for potentially mitigating factors such as whether the person “was an accessory, complicitor, or principal,” along with the person’s “culpability and motive.”

From Slate

“What is their motive? You think they’re staying up nights worrying…? They are not,” Sanders told host Jake Tapper.

From Barron's

Authorities have not identified a motive and do not believe anyone else was involved.

From Los Angeles Times

“Liu’s true motive in pursuing such partnerships was not to develop a sustainable content business but to generate publicity that could be used to artificially inflate token prices for Liu’s personal gain,” Kowal’s lawsuit says.

From Los Angeles Times

"The CAA have demonstrated by the misleading and partial way in which it summarised its application and its wilful, repeated, failure to meet its disclosure obligations, that its true and sole motive in seeking to prosecute Reginald Hunter is to have him cancelled," he wrote.

From BBC