Sentences with phrase «guess at their motivations»

If I had to guess at the motivation for creating this concept, I'd say it was because Daimler AG couldn't accept domestic rival Volkswagen possessing a 200 - mph luxury coupe (the Bentley Continental GT Speed) while Mercedes was stuck at 185 mph or so with its AMG hot rods.

In more distant points of view, readers more often have to watch what the characters are doing and try to guess at their motivations.

Not exact matches

At the base of it, business success is about people — making the right connections, understanding motivation, guessing what others will do next, and accurately evaluating those you meet.

Whether State of Play can seriously consider itself in the same league as Alan J. Pakula's multi-Oscar-winning classic of 70s cinema is not really important — the main question has to be whether the film manages to entrap its audience into guessing at the shadowy motivations of the various players, and maintain the intrigue through to its end.

Readers, like Parker himself, will be second - guessing Zelda's stories and motivation right up until the last page, wondering if she's really magic... or if she's real at all.

Guess what, my reasoning looks at evidence, that is my motivation for being a scientist.

Measuring the distance apart and speed of 2 satellites in space orbiting the earth to the width of a human hair with no margin for error [damn those drift recalculations], and taking into account unknown factors with respect to the true values for water depth, water weight at different salt concentrations, ice depth magma flows, volcanic activity etc [ie making a lot of guesses], plus taking human motivation on board [like CO2 increase must melt ice surely] can give you an accurate measurement of the volume ice in Antarctica.