A job lot of contract kills, erasing any apparent individual motive as the authorities searched for a collective one.

Crew unity was paramount, and this could only be achieved by honest and sympathetic comprehension of individual motives.

Idealism apart, this long chapter has made strikingly little mention of individual motives or decisions.

The individual motives which persuaded a person to become a witch, other than those to whom witchcraft was an old religion, must have been fairly complicated.

Conflicts arise when motives concerning the group are overcome by individual motives.

It made all individual motives seem very small.

Difficult to think of a kid brother as an individual with a life, his own secret thoughts, motives.

Linking individual motives to institutional pressures, the program casts an unkind light on much of commercial television.

In terms of structural functionalism, Merton felt that the focus should be on social functions rather than on individual motives.

However, always an individual motive.