Sentences with phrase «speculate about their motives»
«It's not because they're bad men or want kids to be harmed,» said Anderson, speculating about the motives of top officials at Penn State and the church who allegedly kept quiet about abuse allegations, «but because they want to preserve the reputation of the institutions.»
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As such, he has to expect that people will speculate about his motives and strategies, for better or worse.
As the two strangers take the long walk to town from the train station, the villagers have plenty of time to speculate about their motives.
Personal opinions speculating about motives isn't very helpful and actually not necessary, when the facts speak for themselves.
I don't think speculating about motives is particularly fruitful — humans are human, and there are way too many possible (in detail) motives to worry about them all.
I know we are not supposed to speculate about motives, but reading this series of exchanges I can't help but wonder why they wanted Steve and Ross as reviewers.
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He said when he asked Obama about how he became a Christian, the president said he joined a church in Chicago after becoming a community organizer, leaving Graham to speculate whether he became a Christian for the right motives.
The IDC, (minus Sen. Tony Avella, who's testifying), issued a statement in response to questions about a wiretapped conversation played yesterday at the federal corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, saying (in part): «We can not speculate on the motives of Sen. Skelos.»
speculate about an author's or narrator's values, motives, or thinking in increasingly challenging texts
Of course, we can only speculate as to counsel's motive in seeking to learn of the witness» motive as he tries to force the witness to speculate about the authors» motive.
We don't need, therefore, to speculate (which is all we can do) about motives and honesty.
At Skeptical Science it is against our site policy to speculate about a person's motives, but in this case, Watts volunteered the information.