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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
motive .
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Examples
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The types of people who are motivated by ideas need the services of those who are motived by money.
Matthew Yglesias » 400 Families Earned an Average of $345 Million Each in 2007 2010
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"Public bodies hand over large sums of money with virtually no control to the foundation presided over by Mr Urdangarin on the basis of his person and family connections motived by the fact that to do business in Spain it is important who you know rather than what you know."
Spain's king blocks scandal-hit son-in-law from royal duties 2011
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Only a few months ago, the White House and its allies on the legal left dismissed the constitutional challenges to ObamaCare as frivolous, futile and politically motived.
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More than any President in memory, Mr. Obama has a tendency to vilify his opponents in personal terms and assail their arguments as dishonest, illegitimate or motived by bad faith.
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The Bush Bashers I call them, are not motived in the least by sound political thinking, but by sheer unadulterated hatred, pure and simple.
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That's what's getting said on the Winger Blogs over those specious charges that the Teabag -- oh, excuse me -- the tea-parties -- are an entirely white folks, and an oddly motived event.
They Ain't Racist! delagar 2009
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That's what's getting said on the Winger Blogs over those specious charges that the Teabag -- oh, excuse me -- the tea-parties -- are an entirely white folks, and an oddly motived event.
Archive 2009-04-01 delagar 2009
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I do think, however, that Obama is motived by hubris at least in part.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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But they were motived to attack us in the first place because they think we are aggressive meddlers.
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They are motived by Union Decisions that DO NOT have you in their best interest but instead keeping the city and Tri-Met to obligated to their monopoly.
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