Sentences with phrase «speculation about their motives»

When Burger King announced it would buy Tim Hortons earlier this week there was plenty of speculation about the motives behind the plan and whether it could really work.

The voice I definitely would like to hear next, however, is that of Wolfgang Wagner, in hopes of quieting to the extent possible the rampant speculation about his motives and putative behind - the - scenes pressures and maneuvering that preceded his resignation.

I don't know, and I gather that Steve doesn't like speculation about motives.

Not exact matches

Speculation about the company's motives intensified during 2016 when it opened two more bookstores, in San Diego and Portland, Oregon, and divulged plans for more in Chicago and suburban Boston.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

Speculation about Joshua's motives for example, makes me fall asleep at my keyboard:)

Diversions into motives and speculations about internal states are entertaining but not instructive.

Speculation continues about the government's motives.