principal motives

Another senior Administration official said there were two principal motives for the Soviet initiative.

One of the military's principal motives was to eliminate the rising spirit of social criticism and insecurity.

The motive of the dusk from introduction, as one of the principal motives, permeates the entire work.

There are four principal motives in the black and white, two of which, the swastika and the comb, overshadow the others.

The world of his plays is a vicious one, in which the temptations to attain power and, once attained, to abuse it are mankind's principal motives.

Principal motives used in sculpture and embroidery are geometrical shapes and human and plant representations.

He found four principal motives; religion, fear, regard for a belief in prophecy, and the ignorant conceit that English justice and rule might be better.

Reports in the Iranian press also said the hostages, who include nine Americans, were among Mr. Genscher's principal motives for the two-day trip.

In a conference call this morning, Mr. Amelio said that Apple's principal motives in licensing its operating system were to expand the market and attract new software developers.

At any rate, it is firmly fixed in the minds of most people that gutter-boys, unlike everybody else in the community, find their principal motives for conduct in printed books.

In the view of Hungarian critics and defenders of the regime, as well as diplomats from East and West, Hungary's economic plight, its declining standard of living and rising inflation, even more than Mr. Gorbachev's liberalizing innovations in the Soviet Union, are the principal motives for the transformation under way.