1.   A Temne is likely to suspect the motives of a Mende politician.

2.   Even now I think she overstates her case and ignores the specific tribal, territorial motives of the Balkan conflict.

3.   He anticipated the motives of explorers, conquerors, and settlers for a couple of centuries to come.

4.   The fact that gratitude is the motive of praise could not be more clearly expressed.

5.   The universally-shared human motive of rational self-interest makes human action predictable, generalisable and controllable.

6.   They began to question the motives of the people who held positions of power.

7.   What is the motive of the people making this documentary?

8.   Without impugning the motives of any believer in this, I point out that it reeks of a vile and dangerous racism.

9.   She has a natural ability to understand the motives of others.

10.   The head of the navy heaped scorn on both the methods and motives of the conspirators.