Debate as to the purpose of this camp has been ongoing, since several factors indicate that it may have had an ulterior purpose.
This keeps the power base with the funder, who may have ulterior motives not to act upon them.
There is certainly an ulterior wish to let them express themselves in their own way.
These patrons shared the same interest in acquiring new knowledge as the translators they supported and had, in general, no ulterior motives such as the leg itimation of their power.
Such an analysis can and should leave entirely open any questions relating to the ulterior concerns and motives of the officials whose judgments are under consideration.
The example semantically resembles modern instances of the construction in its denial of an inference: it is denied that a compliment reflects the ulterior motive of flattering someone.
Insofar as perceptions of difference are suspect, or distorted by ulterior considerations, the enterprise of modernization may be altogether misconceived.
Thus architects operate with ulterior motives.
