Initially, many orators talk in vague, ambiguous terms, expecting to inspire

Usage examples of motivate.

By then, the agrarian conditions that had motivated the Huk Rebellion in the 1940s and 1950s had worsened throughout much of the nation.

In late 1997, he applied for permission to complete his course work in Hamburg, a request apparently motivated by his desire to join Atta and Binalshibh.

Who could have thought that this Hoo was in dead earnest, and before leaving the bridal room, motivated by Heaven knows what old grudge, dropped poison in the teapot that was standing by the side of the bridal bed?

Surely ghouls and ghosts, goblins and monsters, had no power over those who were properly groomed, deodorized, fluoridated, dressed, fed, employed, and motivated.

Still, human energies lasted longer than any other species in entechment, whether slaved to shipboard circuits or motivating battle droids.

In the absence of a smoking guna confession, a witness, or a paper trailit is extremely difficult to prove that a judge was improperly motivated in rendering a decision favorable to a particular litigant.

He had forgotten that Izzard was really only a machine, that she might not be motivated to warn him of serious consequences.

Motivated by the inherent caution and suspicion of the wild beast, Tarzan moved silently through the trees which encircled the kampong, to assure himself that no enemy lurked there.

The fictitious figure of the deposed captain was contrived from a study of psychoneurotic case histories to motivate the central situation and is not a portrait of a real military person or a type.

There were many other facets to his character, and in each case, the intention was to make him as motivated and sympathetic as Rambo, because the viewpoints that divided America came from deep, well-meant convictions.

From what he knew of Vindo sailors, it should take more than homesickness or respect for the Guild to motivate a captain to give up his own space.

Tom would not hurt her by anything he would say, being a man, and braver, and motivated by some vaguely different drives, which had to do with pride and being strong, qualities which she had avoided afl her life.

Special laws against homophobic and racially motivated crimes have already been passed in the United States.

He had read about but never experienced the chill in the air, the cunning onset of dark, the sight of white villages, of animals seeking their nighttime roosts or holes, of nocturnal creatures stirring in the fugitive gloom, the general motivating tendency being one of rapid physical adaptation to a mistimed event.

But are you saying that all philosophically mistaken ideas are psychologically or neurotically motivated?