1.   Society and the church used to condemn the profit motive as sinful and wrong.

2.   Once such motives as this are considered, many hundreds of other possibilities become active.

3.   The absence of the profit motive as an incentive to efficiency does not adequately distinguish public and private employees.

4.   Their treatment of those who held land from them may have been prompted as much by economic motives as by political or psychological ones.

5.   As for the stripped-down cello, Boccherini seems to have afforded at least as strong a motive as Bach.

6.   Colgrove says most men he works with do have such motives as a desire to turn back the clock.

7.   He described his motives as constitutional, but they were clearly based on tactics.

8.   Our investigators study for the motive as a means of helping find the killer.

9.   The motive as to why they killed her, I would have to leave to a judge or jury.