Motivated by his sense of nationalism, he viewed some Western ideas as foreign, and he believed that the great introduction of Western ideas and literature that the May Fourth Movement promoted was not beneficial to China.

Motivated by these disasters, in 1714 the British government established the Board of Longitude: prizes were to be awarded to the first person to demonstrate a practical method for determining the longitude of a ship at sea.

Motivated by his understanding of the American model, he advocated a strong, popularly elected presidency as a constitutional counterbalance to the power of the professional bureaucracy.

Motivated by his hatred of the federal government and angered by what he perceived as its mishandling of the Waco Siege ( 1993 ) and the Ruby Ridge incident ( 1992 ), McVeigh timed his attack to coincide with the second anniversary of the deadly fire that ended the siege at Waco.

Motivated by Lovelock's book, biophysicist Robert Haynes worked behind the scenes to promote terraforming, and contributed the word ecopoiesis to its lexicon.

* Social: Motivated by a desire to help, improve and transform social, environmental, educational and economic conditions.

Motivated by President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi.

Motivated by the large CPU time required for compression, a modified version was created in 2003 called pbzip2 that supported multi-threading, giving almost linear speed improvements on multi-CPU and multi-core computers.

Motivated by a fierce propaganda against the Guise and by revenge since the repression of the Amboise conspiracy, the boldest did not hesitate to attack castles, jails and churches.

Motivated by their loss to the Celtics, the 1988 Pistons, aided by midseason acquisition James Edwards, improved to a then-franchise-record 54 victories and the franchise's first Central Division title.

Motivated by resentment, jealousy, and greed, Tony devises a plan to have Margot murdered.

Motivated by patriotism and an innate desire to prove himself, Apollo Creed ( Carl Weathers ) challenges Drago to an exhibition bout.

Motivated by her own chronic illnesses, she decided on a medical career, passing her matriculation exam in 1871 and studying medicine at the University of Toronto.

Motivated by a dream, he spent 33 years constructing the Palais Ideal.

Motivated by his own need for stability, he moves back in with her but soon turns to crime, which forces him to flee and desert her again.

Motivated by the poor quality of Chinese translations of Buddhist scripture at the time, Xuanzang left Chang ' an in 629, despite the border being closed at the time due to war with the Göktürks.

Motivated by the proof of of an analogue of the Weil conjectures for Kähler manifolds, Grothendieck envisioned a proof based on his standard conjectures on algebraic cycles.

Motivated by their faith in Jesus Christ, they share the good news of God with young people.

* Motivated by a desire to destroy the city, Nero secretly sent out men pretending to be drunk to set fire to the city.

* Motivated by an insane whim, Nero quite openly sent out men to set fire to the city.

Motivated in part by the arrest of members of the psychedelic band Plastic People of the Universe, the text of Charter 77 was prepared in 1976.

Motivated by economic uncertainties, Fleischer joined the Norwegian Military Academy and graduated as the second best student in 1905.

Motivated property owners provide incentives for new businesses to get up and running quickly.

* Motivated employees always look for better ways to do a job.

Motivated by the misery of the poor part of the population he founded during the starvation winter of 1846 / 47 the “ Verein für Selbstbeschaffung von Brod und Früchten ” ( Society for bread and grain supply ).

Motivated by these political events, a wealthy group of leaders obtained a Royal Charter in March 1629 for a colony at Massachusetts Bay.

Motivated by a desire to secure the import of Ruhr iron at favourable rates, a number of diplomats began petitioning for a general strike on the grounds that German managers were " quaffing Dortmund beer by the gallon, whilst Ruhr workers toiled: merely a cog in the machine of the industrial revolution.

Motivated by the Monarchs ' runaway pennant victory, NNL president Rube Foster changed the league schedule to a split-season format for 1925.

Motivated by concern for the treatment of the poor, and that the effects of poverty on health could only be fought by governments not doctors, Addison entered politics.

Motivated in no small part by the negative reaction of Capitol Records to some of Brian's ideas for Smile, the new company gave the band more control over their products.

Motivated by the article, Abbott self-published the rules for four of his card games in the book Four New Card Games in 1962, which Abbott sold by mail.

Motivated by bitter memories of being a secondary tenant at the Astrodome, Adams briefly considered either financing the renovation of the Nashville Municipal Auditorium for use as an indoor football venue, building an entirely new facility with a seating capacity of 12, 000 or so ( dropped when Adams was convinced that the potential $ 30, 000, 000 price tag for such a building he had apparently initially been quoted was wildly optimistic ), or expanding the Titans ' existing indoor practice facility ( at " Baptist Sports Park ", named for a local hospital ) for use as an Arena venue.

Motivated by his love for Trinity and not wanting to play into The Architect's ultimatum like his predecessors, he defies The Architect and chooses to attempt to save Trinity.

Motivated by his search for a mechanical explanation of gravitation, he started to consider how a system of colliding particles could give rise to action at a distance.

* GEMS ( Girls Educated and Motivated for Success )

Motivated by this incident and inspired by the work of Henry Bergh in New York, his advocacy for the humane treatment of animals became a lifelong passion.

In 1954, he was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society and in 1971 the Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America for his paper A Motivated Account of an Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem.

Motivated by Cuellar's votes on cap and trade and the Obama health care initiative, two Republicans, Daniel Chavez, a utility company employee from Mission in Hidalgo County, and Bryan Keith Underwood, a carpenter from Seguin in Guadalupe County, filed for their party's nomination to oppose Cuellar in the November 2 general election.

Motivated by the idea of a label dedicated to tasteful, current jazz, Taylor worked with ABC-Paramount executive Harry Levine to advocate for the label, which he dubbed “ The New Wave in Jazz .” He is best known for recruiting John Coltrane to record on Impulse !, who went on to create over twenty albums with the label before his passing in 1967.

They established decentralized townships in non-Muslim colonies that were linked to an extensive commercial network, in what was described by professor Philip D. Curtin as a “ trading diaspora .” Motivated by business imperatives, they expanded into new markets, founding settlements under the auspices of various local rulers who often permitted self-governance and autonomy.

* Binns C ( June 19, 2006 ), Natural Body Guards: How Your Killer Cells Get Motivated.

* Motivated employees are more quality oriented.

* Motivated workers are more productive.