Sentences with phrase «motivated by a wish»

They are deeply motivated by the wish to have no one ever tell them what to do or to have a group of people become highly dependent on them.

Or is he motivated by a wish to help others find a meaningful religious life?

The other is that two cute girls, ages 18 and 17, who look like the sort that any parent would love, are serial killers, guns for hire who in the story's leading incidents are motivated by the wish for money to buy expensive dresses.

Many are at their heart idealists, motivated by a wish to create a sustainable future for mankind and ensure a biodiverse and healthy planet.

Leaving aside sheer vindictiveness, the litigant may also be motivated by the wish to pressure the opponent into settlement or capitulation.

Not exact matches

While efforts to reduce someone s grieving may seem justified as acts of love, and motivated only by a wish to minimize another's pain (and thus are difficult, especially for the bereaved, to challenge), they fail the first test of love: they do not show respect.

At that time the technology of transplant surgery was beginning to make progress, and some people suspected that the desire to establish in law a concept of brain death was motivated only by the wish to obtain organs for transplant before those organs had deteriorated (as they will rapidly when heart and lung activity fail).

I would not for a minute wish to deny that we are too often motivated by an obsessive desire for power and control, and dominated by a narrow and calculating rationality which can not even acknowledge the deeper values of human life and experience, and that such attitudes may contribute to the coming of one form or another of global catastrophe.

• A recent issue of the New Republic includes a long review of a new book, FDR and the Jews, examining FDR's handling of Germany and the Holocaust, and finding that he did not do as well as he could have done but did well in difficult circumstances, «motivated primarily by a wish to address the great problems of the day in a manner that would sustain him and his party politically.»

I wish more would be led by their hearts than by populist teachings of a politically motivated structure.

Many will be motivated by their personal faith, and if they wish to pray for guidance prior to meetings they are free do so.

These proposals are motivated not by a desire to undermine society, but to strengthen it, and to strengthen the ties that bind us, allowing those who wish to commit to each other to do so.

We therefore see this action by the GLC as very selective, targeted, ill - motivated and an affront to justice and fairness and wish to call on the Council to reverse its decision.

The Babraham Institute wishes to recruit a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Scientist to investigate molecular mechanisms by which T cell immunity is suppressed in cancer.

The film plays into the themes of how people are motivated to action by either fears or desires, and how stagnation often results in scenarios that aren't wished for.

Reluctantly, but similarly motivated by a genuine wish to help, he agrees.

Educators in Vermont who wish to pursue their Master's in Teaching but lack the financial means to do so may want to consider applying for private scholarships, such as The Roothbert Fund, which provides grants for undergraduate or graduate study to candidates «motivated by spiritual values.»

I am apparently motivated by jealousy, because I wish that my ebooks were priced at $ 7.99 with me getting 25 % of net digital royalties.

It's also wrong, and is motivated by politicians» wishes to please every constituency.

I call it «The 3 E» of successful presentations, even if, I know, one of them does not start with an E. My wish is that by doing all this some members of audience will be motivated to take action to reduce the threat of climate change for my nieces and nephews.

It is either assumed that everyone knows what makes one do this or that — or, when the issue is raised — we are always dealing with the meagre economic person, who is motivated entirely by the wish to maximize benefit.

Rather, they have «Hate Crimes» which are charged only when the prosecution wishes to show that the crime was motivated by hatred of a protected class of people (I.E. the killer shouts a slur at his victim.).