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Example sentences for: motives

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Everyone gets tired of the ransacking of private lives, the cynical search for ulterior motives, the weighing of imperfect evidence; after a while, people are likely to say, "Just let it go."
However, the sources of and motives behind cyber attacks often cannot be readily determined.
Comment has instead tended to focus on familial betrayal, dubious motives, and the moral sink that is the memoir today.
For one thing, the three accused of long-term spying for East Germany are said by the FBI to have acted out of ideological rather than material motives.
Routine clinical assessment of technologies by financially interested institutions fosters public cynicism and distrust of the motives of academic biomedical researchers.