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Example sentences for: motive

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Precautionary saving motive.
The motive for this technical inferiority was probably budgetary, but there is no denying that it made falsification so much easier, since even the unaltered pictures look like fakes.
Pundits theorized Starr's true motive was to distance himself from right-wing Clinton conspiracy theorist Richard Mellon Scaife, a major donor to Pepperdine who is accused of funneling money to Clinton Whitewater accuser David Hale.
But if delivering that message was the motive for impeachment, then there's no need to go further and expel Clinton from office.
They might be right or wrong, but this motive would not make their articles inherently corrupt or dishonest.