Sentences with 'motive'
Example sentences and phrases with the word motive and other words derived from it.
• « Money was probably a secondary motive; his fantastic selfishness was another, and his anti-Americanism, the third. »
• « The Vikings began travelling up the Russian rivers from the Baltic in the mid-8th century, even before the period of raiding began further west. Their initial motive was trade, not conquest, to trade and collect goods such as furs, amber and honey and transport them south to both Byzantium and the Abbasid Caliphate. »
• « Technology also created a motive for imperialism, due to a phenomenon historians refer to as the "Second Industrial Revolution". »
• « These merchants were not interested in the philosophy behind the colonists' desire for freedom; rather, their motive was that the non-importation of British goods by the American colonists was hurting their business. »