Examples of motivate

• If on such an item the subject makes an external attribution, there may be good reason to infer that this is defensively motivated.

• There are other examples of new enfeoffments which turn out on closer analysis to have been motivated by political designs.

• In the forefront was the observation that physicians do not perceive the purported power of their recommendations in motivating patient behavioral change.

• The choice of the third correlogram peak was not motivated by rigorous theoretical considerations but was also not arbitrary.

• They assumed that we are all naturally motivated towards convention and require some force(" strain") to push us out of it.

• In turn, the teacher keeps herself up to date and maintains an active interest in motivating and guiding the learner.

• The narrative determination of a universe motivates the segmentation of the time line into foreground and background (the former is treated as the present).

• Underlying these historically contingent details, and motivating their selection and deployment, is a particular type of plot structure.