What is "motivated"

Usage examples of "motivated".

To achieve this psychological cyclisation and make it aesthetically convincing, the old ways of linking the stories had to be abandoned and a new method had to be found to make the whole composition of the cycle perfectly natural and motivated.

If they were trained and motivated, one simply did not care that they learned their skills as Angolan mercenaries, as Bosnia ethnic cleansers, or in one of those surprisingly good training facilities operated by gentlemen of the Muslim persuasion.

Such a move would be motivated less by fear of what a warhead might do to one of their proud battlecraft than what might happen to the asteroid mines and spaceborne factories they had established.

Cyrus Curbstone starts getting these brokered deposits, he becomes a motivated lender.

Practical functions motivated Thorwalian architects, but comfort and beauty were most important in Dakotan design.

But as a human being whose parameters of vision and understanding were being expanded by the expanding age in which he played a central role, he could appreciate the tangled drives, so unlike his own, which motivated these two young men.

The growth of the city, street by street, building by building, had been driven not by any conscious intent, not even by the will of the emperors, but by individual decisions, motivated by the greed or nobility, farsightedness or purblindness that afflicted every human being.

Enclave Police Chief Stephanie Brunell expressed both outrage and puzzlement at that attack, allegedly motivated by a search for Change syringes, by the terrorist group calling itself Livers For Control.

They had ample reason to employ effective security measures, but as with all monetarily motivated people they lacked the purity of purpose that his own colleagues exercised.

Greater Serbia with a suitable port, the attack on Dubrovnik was also motivated by the long-standing urge of the Hercegovinian and Montenegrin mountain dwellers to make this beautiful city Serbian.

Tsubouchi Shoyo and Futabatei Shimei were thus taking the pioneer steps in creating a new fiction on Western lines, other writers, motivated in part by the strongly conservative, nativistic trend of the 1880s, sought to revitalize Japanese literature by means of its own tradition.

Like the syllables of the Proustian name, the last word is multiply motivated.

The irregularities of wind and ram, just as much as the regularities of rivers, the sea and the earth, the stars, sun and moon, are explained animistically, as reflecting the minds or whims of local or global gods, themselves motivated by similar concerns to those that motivate humans.

We ran a drug recovery crashpad as a front, suborned teenyboppers into prostitution, coerced male patients into phone sales duty and kept them motivated with Benzedrine-laced espressoall of which peaked at twenty-four grand jury bills busted down to three indictments apiece.

We ran a drug recovery crashpad as a front, suborned teenyboppers into prostitution, coerced male patients into phone sales duty and kept them motivated with Benzedrine-laced espresso-all of which peaked at twenty-four grand jury bills busted down to three indictments apiece.