His main motivation appears to be his craving for social status; she is the daughter of Lord Vowchurch.

His goal and motivation appears to be world domination.

For top executives, the traditional motivations for the starving author - fame and money - would appear to be lacking.

The protests coincided with unrest in Tibet, but the motivations appeared to be local.

Sometimes these changes were made for usability reasons, but increasingly, the motivation appeared to be, for lack of a better word, fashion.

In addition, the motivation behind the split of the sect from mainstream Judaism appears to have been of a religious rather than political nature.

The primary motivation behind this decision appears to be because they could.

The deeply religious Rickey's motivation appears to have been primarily moral, although business considerations were also present.

Although integrated farming is economically and environmentally sound, the motivation for integration would appear to be the national policy of diversification of production.

The primary motivation for migration appears to be food; for example, some hummingbirds choose not to migrate if fed through the winter.