motive for action

Motives for action may be based on a shared political, faith, moral, or commercial position.

Perhaps more so, as they do not have an urgent motive for action."

But policy also involves our values, our motives for action.

The writer goes on to point out that competition with the upstart America was one of the motives for action.

Hope is each character's central motive for action.

SCT explains that meanings, emotions, values, and the motives for action are in the communication contexts by people trying to make sense out of a common experience.

"I choose to leave our country for your protection, so that my presence will not be a motive for actions against the military establishment or a pretext for unjustified actions."

The illegitimate use of outward beauty, when abused, is criticized, sometimes to a ludicrous extent. But outward beauty has and always will be a motive for action in many circumstances..

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

'Again, the ground upon which a contract is voidable for duress is the same as in the case of fraud, and is that, whether it springs from a fear or a belief, the party has been subjected to an improper motive for action.

In the kind of fiction under consideration here, the quest draws on the traditions of chivalry, traditions which are romantic in the sense that reality is softened, that a heightened emotional response to a distant ideal is interposed between the hero's initial motive for action and his expectation of reward.