"motivate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But in the Louisiana rail-car accident, the jury appears to have been motivated chiefly by urgings from plaintiffs' lawyers to "send a message" to the corporate defendants, rather than by a damage analysis.
- Her journey was motivated chiefly by a sort of visceral feminism.
- The committee concluded that China was chiefly motivated by its desire to match the sophisticated efforts of Taiwan and other major nations.
- Wilson and Parks were chiefly motivated to create something explicitly American in style and subject as a direct reaction to the overwhelming British dominance of pop culture at the time.
- They came in family groups, rather than as isolated individuals, and were motivated chiefly by a quest for freedom to practice their Puritan religion.
- Some Polish authors emphasize a wider emigration pattern motivated chiefly by economic conditions and the unwillingess of the German minority to live in the Polish state.
- One of the Cold Harbor scientists suggests that this was motivated chiefly by their inability to live with themselves.
- "The principal advocates for this appear chiefly motivated by mean-spirited partisanship; they certainly care not at all for the feelings of Vince's family, particularly those of his children, who have suffered greatly."
- Mr. Silverglad's son, James, a corporate lawyer, said his father was motivated chiefly by an intellectual curiosity.
- Certain US companies - chiefly motivated by financial considerations - are stepping up pressure in all the Community's institutions for the adoption of this directive.
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