11.   But the focus now appears to be starting to shift from trying to fathom the motives to trying to stop the incursions.

12.   Critics attribute the same political motive to its workfare ruling.

13.   Each side in the dispute ascribes ulterior motives to the other, and scientists looking on tend to agree that other factors contributed to the escalation of the controversy.

14.   Four years after the fact, the feat police have assigned more sinister motives to her withdrawal.

15.   Hard to say, for both women keep their motives to themselves.

16.   If anyone had a motive to bail out it was Brito, the investor, who had never intended to play an active role in the company.

17.   If the law passes, they warned, some perpetrators would try conjure a hate-based motive to their crime in order to avoid local prosecution.

18.   In written answers to questions from the inspector general, Gore denied any political motive to the effort to reduce the backlog.

19.   It is too easy to impute evil motives to those with whom we disagree.

20.   Rosenthal said the driver who kept threatening me appeared to attribute hostile motives to other people.