improper motive

Other men may have improper motives, but I do not."

Anyone with an improper motive for donating would most likely be turned away.

It may not be possible to establish good faith if the main reason for disclosure is an improper motive.

"But it's not from some improper motive not to keep people there more than 24 hours."

Once you start believing that everything is political, he said, you see improper motives everywhere.

He said the Court's precedents held that "a legitimate state statute should not be struck down on allegations of improper motive."

This is so even if there is no improper motive or purpose, and no personal advantage to the director.

Goldstone himself came under sustained personal attack, with critics accusing him of bias, dishonesty and improper motives in being party to the report.

An improper motive forfeits this defence.

President Clinton has also said there were no improper motives behind the help his friends gave to Mr. Hubbell.

Malice or improper motive, or the pursuit some illegitimate purpose, will lead to the forfeiture of the defence.

The author himself apparently feard he would be suspected of improper motives, and so he writes in his letter:

A cause of action for abuse of process may lie in situations where a criminal proceeding is brought against a defendant for improper motives.

An improper motive might include hostile intent, antagonism toward a board member or the intention to harm the board or the association.

(Standing Order 193 prohibits senators from making 'imputations of improper motives or personal reflections' on currently serving judicial officers.)

Gretchen confesses her love to Faust, but she knows instinctively that his companion (Mephistopheles) has improper motives.

"Though the compensatory damages are large, they are supported by the evidence, and were not the result of mere passion, prejudice or improper motive," the court said.

Mr Clarke, the head of the judicial inquiry, determined Mr Andrews did not act for an improper motive.

Many courts will fine or sanction a party who files a demurrer for improper motive, for example, to harass or intimidate the opposing party.

You accuse these agencies of improper motives - such as using children as bait for donors - when you are guilty of the same shortcoming on your cover.

In a statement, the firm said it had also uncovered other discrepancies by its government desk involving Treasury rules but added that they did not "suggest any improper motive or result."

"The suggestion that the disclosure was made for an improper motive and in the expectation of preventing the trial continuing finds no support in the available evidence," the report concluded.

His character, however, was marred by the violence of his party feelings, his jealousy, and the readiness with which he imputed improper motives to all who differed from him.

The allegedly improper motive was the hotel owner's underlying purpose of compelling plaintiff to pay a bill owed for plaintiff's alleged rental of a room in defendant's hotel.

In this case, Justice Stevens said, there was only minor economic injury and "no deliberate false statements, acts of affirmative misconduct, or concealment of evidence of improper motive."