"motive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I had another less lofty motive.
- The Atlantic Monthly does not have as lofty a motive for moving to Washington in the months ahead.
- The school's lofty motives aside, the venture still is a business deal with profit-making potential.
- But the force has been criticized for having less than lofty motives, since some say it has looted the country of goods from machinery to minerals.
- This shift, sudden and dramatic, was accompanied by statements of lofty motives.
- The hero of Flamborough may have been rationalizing to conceal less lofty motives.
- The Mayor cites the lofty motives of public safety and sacred campaign pledges.
- We have heard enough of your 'oppositional attitude' and your lofty motives.
- The governor's staff argues loudly that there were less lofty motives, namely paychecks and the August vacations.
- How even I, with stalwart purpose in my heart and lofty motives in my mind, might hesitate?
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