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But judges have both the motive and the opportunity to contort tradition and precedent in ways that render outcomes illogical and un predictable.
Roads are refreshingly free of traffic; a prime source of motive power is still the tiny ponies pulling unlikely loads in two-wheeled traps.
He denies both the amount and the motive.
The ensuing clashes were particularly brutal, according to the WP, because the "sponsors" had little motive to limit the destruction.
As someone who was basically put out of business by the Washington Post , Waldrop would certainly have had the motive to demystify its greatest journalistic coup.