"motive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The informers, he said, have extensive criminal records and every motive to lie.
- The second-named motive, ambition or, in milder terms, the aiming at recognition and consideration, lies firmly fixed in human nature.
- Instead, the motive lies in the strange mechanism that New Jersey has created for financing its roads.
- Investigators say the answers and motives behind the bombing probably lie within this small circle and their interconnected world.
- Valor is defined by valiant deeds, regardless of what motives lie in a person's heart.
- That the G.O.P. has proposed ideas at odds with its lofty rhetoric fuels suspicion that its real motives lie elsewhere - perhaps lining the pockets of favored benefactors.
- "But strange as it seems, logic seems to dictate that if Georgia is dead and if these killings are linked, the motive lies in what the victims have written."
- You see the real motive lies there.
- No, an examination of his speech reveals that his real motives lie elsewhere.
- Two motives lie behind staging larger protests while they are in the country.
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