The De religione gentilium in particular is a noteworthy study of pre-Christian religions, apparentlymotived by doubt or challenge as to his theorem of the universality of the God-idea.
The records of the South African courts are replete with instances of cattle-maiming, arson, poisoning and other crimes proved to have been motived solely by feelings of revenge.
Doubtless it will be urged again that the act of knowing is motived by an independent desire and striving of its own.
A policy which on the face of the case could only be motived by public spirit and zeal for the truth was met by the vilest aspersions, the most malignant imputation of the most preposterously bad intentions.
The theory is, that it is a psychological law that action is motived by pleasure and pain, and that nothing else has motive-power over it.
In this case our course of action, if motived by pleasure, would have to be entirely changed, our practical ethics revised and reversed.
Man fails in acting up to reason in this sense, because his action is not motived by reason, but directly by pleasure and pain; and not by a mere estimate of pleasure and pain, but by pleasure and pain themselves.
He tries to carry out a systematic, motived criticism; but he asserts rather than persuades or convinces.
The majority of prison crimes are against property, and are motived by want and poverty.
The clamour of the exploiters of "Ulster" is motived on this point by two considerations, the one an illusion, the other a reality.
The will to preserve her nationality motived her whole life, especially in the modern period.
Nothing is motived and explained by preliminaries.
Savonarola's prediction of the fall of Rome was one of many, motived by religion and invited by the absolute fact of previous invasions, of which the last had occurred only two years before.
The one-motived economic man who cares only for personal gain is, no doubt, an abstraction, like the lines and points of Euclid.
Was it not the habit of the Czars, all of them, during the whole revolutionary epoch, to indulge in the pious cant of proclaiming that they were motived only by their solicitude for the interests and well-being of the peasants?
Motived by the same desire, our American labor-unions are demanding, and steadily gaining, an increasing share in the actual direction of industry.
That was the reason which motived the "decree" of Lenine on the socialization of the soil, which decree appeared immediately after the coup d'état.
The fact is, however, that all around us forms of business already have developed where we count it shame for a man to be chiefly motived by a desire for private gain.
We can then announce the betrothal just before the Emperor's visit here, and gain the Imperial blessing on so righteous a marriage between a brave man and a beautiful woman, each motived by the highest patriotic feelings for Russia.
I knew that these men would be picked from among the most reckless and daring spirits in the Empire; men suffering under the grossest personal wrongs as well as motived by wild political fanaticism.
But, as we have already said, the contemplative life is motived by the affective faculties, and consequently love of God and of our neighbour are required for the contemplative life.
The world community can ultimately bemotived by nothing less than the life within the hearts of men of the God whom they come to know through Jesus Christ.
The Lincolnshire rising and the Pilgrimage of Grace were, it is true, mainly motivedby discontent with the attack on the abbeys.
This covenant is the self-motived promise of an unconditional mercy.
Often it happens in the growth of life that men have small choice in matters of living that are motived by hunger or its descendant concerns; for necessity narrows the choice.
His countenance did not betray his power; that was in his tireless little legs, his effective hands, and his shrewd brain motived by a heart too kind for the finer moral distinctions that men must make who go far in this world.
This will be inner rather than outer; it will be motived by interest, will shape itself into interest-directed effort.
But religion does it, for religion is life motived by visions of God; it is tremendous in strength, but with man's unequal power to understand the Divine, it is ambiguous in quality.
Man's life, interpreted and motived by religious faith, is glorious, but shorn of faith's interpretations life loses its highest meaning and its noblest hopes.
Maybe they are motived by hope of getting on in the world and not motived by the terror of slipping down.
They are motived now by hope rather than by fear, and they are going to react strangely during the next ten years on the social structure of this old world.
And that will is motived by the great shadow that is hanging over the world--the shadow of public debt in this war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motived" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
