The informers, he said, have extensive criminal records and every motive to lie.

The second-named motive, ambition or, in milder terms, the aiming at recognition and consideration, lies firmly fixed in human nature.

Instead, the motive lies in the strange mechanism that New Jersey has created for financing its roads.

Investigators say the answers and motives behind the bombing probably lie within this small circle and their interconnected world.

Valor is defined by valiant deeds, regardless of what motives lie in a person's heart.

That the G.O.P. has proposed ideas at odds with its lofty rhetoric fuels suspicion that its real motives lie elsewhere - perhaps lining the pockets of favored benefactors.

"But strange as it seems, logic seems to dictate that if Georgia is dead and if these killings are linked, the motive lies in what the victims have written."

You see the real motive lies there.

No, an examination of his speech reveals that his real motives lie elsewhere.

Two motives lie behind staging larger protests while they are in the country.