Volunteers in the British Legion were motivated by a combination of both genuine political and mercenary motives.

If you're trying to tell me I wasn't doing all this for mercenary motives I resent it.

Some at the signings had more mercenary motives.

To write such a book and not be a fan would imply motives both mercenary and cynical.

When Catherine tearfully confronts him, he admits his mercenary motives outright and leaves her.

"If" Isikoff had been writing a book, he might be accused of mercenary motives.

And rewards can inject mercenary motives into an act that should be seen as a civic duty.

They were written for the sake of money, and it is impossible to say how far the same mercenary motive actuated Ireland in his forgeries.

But such mercenary motives on the part of the record companies do not explain the appeal of these disks to so many listeners.

Online dating sites, whatever their more mercenary motives, draw on the premise that there has got to be a better way.