Sentences with phrase «as the motive for»

Those with university qualifications intend to study later, and the ones who already are registered at university cite the high tuition as their motive for prostitution.

We must at least add the desire for civil peace to the two desires, curiosity and control, that Palmer has identified as the motives for objectivism.

Equally indebted to Martin Scorsese, Guy Ritchie, and Giorgio Armani, London Boulevard represents the apotheosis of style over substance, the kind of gangster flick where the cut of a killer's suit is as important as the motive for his crime.

This fact suggests a conflict of interest as the motive for the industry is to make a profit.

In this view, art does not ultimately succeed by the virtue of the ideas or politics it conveys, or because of the story it tells, even though these may figure prominently as motives for a work's creation.

Change in a previously unknown region that turns out to be globally typical — «Subantarctic Glaciers Not Surprising» — is difficult to sell as a motive for political action.

Our environment minister, Phil Woolas, cited all these as motives for returning to the tap (although he did admit to being still partial to a drop of the fizzy stuff).

I am usually sceptical of people who give this kind of thing as the motive for their work but, having read this book, I can not see any other reason why anyone would put up with it.

Not exact matches

The purported motive for the torture carried out in Syria is even the same as that reported in Iraq — to intimidate and terrify the population.

Stark's motives made «Captain America: Civil War» a better movie: choosing sides was a huge conflict for fans, and added a lot more depth to the MCU and the Avengers as individuals.

In top - down power structures, employees are viewed as worker bees and considered to be objects or expenses rather than assets; there is little concern for their happiness or well - being, since the motive for hiring them was purely productivity and profit.

Saunders identified the suspect as Alek Minassian, 25, and said police were still searching for a motive, declining to provide further details.

He has, for instance, publicly disavowed profit as a primary motive, saying, «We don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.»

Hernandez's defense, led by Michael Fee, however, spun the conversation as proof of a close friendship between the men, which could lead the jury to question Hernandez's motive for murder, a significant element in the burden of proof for the prosecution.

The Trump Administration has pointed to Comey's handling of the Clinton investigation as reasons for his termination, but Democrats (and some Republicans) have questioned Trump's motives and timing.

This works under the guise of including the CC'd as a general FYI and for transparency, but the real motive is to make sure the main recipient knows that multiple people are expecting a reply.

After this announcement, some news outlets, such as TIME and ABC News, began circulating a story from the Associated Press that said the motive for the attack was due to the fact that Rollins was «lovesick.»

As for your disrespect on display towards «a profit motive», I take it part of your philosophy was receiving a salary that barely met your basic needs for a spartan living and not a dollar more, right?

Recently, he's focused on the profit motive as a powerful tool for turning hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance.

Sheriff Israel said that the authorities did not yet know the motive for the killing, but were learning more about Mr. Cruz through his social media pages, which he described as «very, very concerning.»

Because if he, as a proxy for the Justice Department (specifically the FBI), can be painted as anti-Trump, then it means his hiring of special counsel Robert Mueller had ulterior anti-Trump motives.

The pessimists, it was often speculated, had financial motives for their pronouncements, such as being short the market.

Use accruals to make sure that management isn't manipulating earnings through the numerator, which could indicate their motives for the denominator as well.

Amazingly, some of neo-cons at Fox News are now questioning the legitimacy and motives for U.S. belligerence toward Russia using Syria as the «host.»

At this time, we're not gonna go into what Pai's motives may have been but it has been reported that the NRA, which has been lobbying for the repeal of these regulations has now honored him with a valuable handmade Kentucky long gun as a prize for the part he played «standing up under pressure with grace, dignity and principled discipline»

For example, Tyerman frequently notes that religious motives or pious idealism played roles in the Crusades but only as a qualifier to subsequent descriptions of political and economic motives.

The sad truth is, even though our politicians try to sell us that our motive is freedom for other peoples, we are happy to support dictators as long as they serve our purposes.

My great concern for evangelicals in the United States, whether they are pragmatically voting for Trump or withdrawing from politics altogether, is how they are embracing fear as a legitimate motive for followers of Jesus Christ.

As for the motives of the actors and the community, it is admittedly dangerous to speculate.

In bypassing questions as to the practice of the early Church in this matter it insists that the motive for celibate priesthood is found in the words and the mystery of Christ: «Perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the

To look for another reason here, a «deeper» reason, is to try to find motives and goals in natural processes just as we would look for these in people.

He does indeed teach the rigorous requirement for purity of motive; but there is forgiveness for those who sin in this area as in any other, and his severest judgments are reserved for the proud, the exploiters, and the self - righteous.

So I see prayer as a tool to help focus our energies using themes from the bible but that ultimately we'd grow and progress into other forms that did nt require speech as a show of how pious we are — thats the danger of prayer imho that we can be doing it for ulterior motives and end up like the Pharisee who said thank God I am not like the sinners.

(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred name in their reading of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants of the name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness of any god to surrender possession of his secret name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.

I suspect your motive for asking is congruity, to see if I am a like minded person such as yourself.

Many Christians were initially overjoyed as his actions, but he came clean in an article for The Observer: «I have an ulterior motive for wishing to contribute to Gove's scheme.

It makes sense that, as we do outward good works, others be allowed to behold something of our inner motives for doing them, and of the positive effect of our hidden good motives — though the good deed is not to be done primarily in order to be outwardly observed by others.

Although fully familiar with the enormous power of modern science, medicine and technology, he held high Christian love as the answer to human needs in the broadest sense: «If you have Christian love,» he declared to a stunned audience, «you have motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»

When all of existence is discovered to be sacred and one's life is viewed as a trust to be invested in enhancing human values, motive - power for significant involvement is created.

They ought to have placed the Canal on an international basis so clear and unobjectionable that Nasser would have had neither the motive nor the opportunity for behaving as he did in 1956.

And even if we do consider individuals as isalated entities, Augustine's exposure of the moral ambiguity of every human initiative and intention — indeed, the impossibility of even knowing for certain our real motives — renders pure Pelagianism incomprehensible.

This remains a strong implication of the story of the quarrel between Lot (the father of the nations Moab and Ammon) and Abraham, and Lot's free choice of the land to the east and south of Canaan proper (13) The same motive partially underlies the repeated promise of the land to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the pointed denial of the claims of others, for example Ishmael (the Ishmaelites) and Esau (the Edomites) as well as Moab and Ammon.

We had the first baptism of slave converts in the Velloor school; between fifty and sixty were present, and (from) the numerous candidates for baptism nineteen were admitted into the visible Church of Christ... Their hearty responses and decided, brief and pointed answers as to motives... -LCB- and -RCB- strictly consistent Christian conduct for many months past,... left no doubts on our minds that many of these, I hope all, were already members of the invisible Church of Christ.36

God, then, in Dr. Cumming's conception, is a being who has no pleasure in the exercise of love and truthfulness and justice, considered as effecting the well - being of His creatures; He has satisfaction in us only in so far as we exhaust our motives and dispositions of all relation to our fellow - beings, and replace sympathy with men by anxiety for the «glory of God.»

While we must still admit that nature reveals to us only the answers to questions selectively focused by our interpretive structures, we may reaffirm that we are still in her leading strings, to reverse Kant's point, because reality is the first motive for the natural process of thinking as well as the final measure of its results.

This will lead to comments on the way in which Kierkegaard's thought can be used as a basis for understanding the motives which underlie political violence.

This is not to say that there may not be motives for our desire for such individualistic survival that can not be dismissed out of hand as entirely self - centered.

**************************************************************************************** My immediate motive for providing this schema was prompted by a difficulty concerning Simon and Garfunkel's «Sounds of Silence,» but as mentioned above, the larger motive comes from the nature of the Songbook project itself.

We have seen other nations, to be sure, in which self - interest has made itself felt as an invincible motive for the giving up of what we call such freedoms.

Yet for some reason we do not dare to follow his logic even when we accept some of his premises, such as this one of our determination by our strongest motive.