The fact that his assassination came in the midst of a pattern of violence against Shia clerics in Najaf in the weeks leading up to his death ( Al-Hakim was the fourth to be assassinated ) led some to conclude that the attack was most likely motivated by anti-Shia sentiment.

Sing Sing's prisoner strike was motivated by a reasonable purpose, a fair break from parole boards.

Laissez-faire advocates criticize the term as an ideologically motivated attempt to cast what is in their view the fundamental problem of government intervention or “ investments ” as an avoidable aberration ; free-market advocates refer to governmental favoritism as " crony socialism ", " venture socialism " or " corporatism, a modern form of mercantilism " to emphasize that the only way to run a profitable business in such systems is to have help from corrupt government officials.

Following the defeat of the Independent State of Croatia at the end of the war, a large number of Ustaše, and civilians supporting them ( ranging from sympathisers, young conscripts, anti-communists, and ordinary serfs who were allegedly motivated by Partisan crimes ) attempted to flee in the direction of Austria hoping to surrender to British forces and to be given refuge.

Asexuality is considered distinct from abstention from sexual activity and from celibacy, which are behavioral and generally motivated by factors such as an individual's personal or religious beliefs.

Based on this, she offered a definition incorporating those elements, stating that euthanasia " must be defined as death that results from the intention of one person to kill another person, using the most gentle and painless means possible, that is motivated solely by the best interests of the person who dies.

For example, Lancaster students, motivated to save scrip, ultimately rented individual pages of textbooks from the school library, and read them in groups around music stands to reduce textbook costs.

Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale ( 1985 ) tells a dystopic tale of a society in which women have been systematically stripped of all liberty, and was motivated by fear of potential retrogressive effects on women's rights stemming from the anti-feminist backlash of the 1980s.

She is credited with popularizing the term " debugging " for fixing computer glitches ( motivated by an actual moth removed from the computer ).

Hannibal ’ s troops lost in combat were replaced with less well-trained and motivated mercenaries from Italy or Gaul.

With the rise of the Churches, attacks on Jews became motivated instead by theological considerations specifically deriving from Christian views about Jews and Judaism.

Cocteau acknowledged in the introduction to the script that the play was motivated, in part, by complaints from his actresses that his works were too writer / director-dominated and gave the players little opportunity to show off their full range of talents.

In 1948, motivated by the desire to create a strong independent economy, Tito modeled his economic development plan independently from Moscow, which resulted in a diplomatic escalation followed by a bitter exchange of letters in which Tito affirmed that

Philia is motivated by practical reasons ; one or both of the parties benefit from the relationship.

Murray responded to much criticism by claiming that it was religiously motivated, coming from Christians who did not want her theories to be true: in one case she stated that her theory had received " a hostile reception from many strictly Christian sects and reviewers, but it made its way in spite of opposition.

Although born from the same history of Unix, Internet free software, and the hacker culture as the free software movement launched by Richard Stallman and his Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative was formed and chose the term open source, in Michael Tiemann's words, to " dump the moralizing and confrontational attitude that had been associated with ' free software ' in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape.

During that time, the persecution of Buddhists was motivated mostly by separating politics from religion.

On this account, impartial ( self-sacrificing ) behavior in particular matters may be motivated by self-interested considerations from a broader perspective.

However, the limited transmission speed, relatively large voltage swing, and large standard connectors motivated development of the universal serial bus, which has displaced RS-232 from most of its peripheral interface roles.

The need to identify and manipulate the properties of a system as a whole, which in complex engineering projects may greatly differ from the sum of the parts ' properties, motivated the Department of Defense, NASA, and other industries to apply the discipline.

Harsanyi rejects hedonistic utilitarianism as being dependent on an outdated psychology saying that it is far from obvious that everything we do is motivated by a desire to maximise pleasure and minimise pain.

* March 26 – The Prussian government, motivated by Otto von Bismarck, expels all ethnic Poles and Jews without German citizenship from Prussia in the Prussian deportations.

Socialist economists, such as Robin Hahnel, have criticized the term as an ideologically motivated attempt to cast what is in their view the fundamental problems of capitalism as avoidable irregularities.

It is an individualized, University-wide degree where highly motivated, academically superior students work one-on-one with faculty mentors to design their own fields of study.

These departures were motivated by an enhanced severance or early retirement, as well as an imminent demotion as their functions were to be shifted to vice presidents.

Learners can also be motivated by their interest in the subject area or specific skill they are trying to learn.

The commercials featured ex-Windows users discussing their various bad experiences that motivated their own personal switches to Macintosh.

" Hate crime " generally refers to criminal acts that are seen to have been motivated by bias against one or more of the types above, or of their derivatives.

Over 40, 000 strong, well motivated and supremely confident, the Zulu were a formidable force on their own home ground, despite the almost total lack of modern weaponry.

" The rise of Christian Zionism — that is, religiously motivated Christian interest and support for the state of Israel — along with a growth of philo-Semitism ( love of the Jewish people ) has increased interest among American Evangelicals in Judaism, especially areas of commonality with their own beliefs, see also Jerusalem in Christianity.

His death motivated the Danes, who until then had resigned themselves to German occupation, to rise against their foreign oppressors.

If individual participants recognize the value of their own vote, they are motivated to trade.

Liberman concludes by saying he thinks " that many if not most of the complaints directed against G & M are motivated in part by ideological disagreement – just as much of the praise for their work is motivated by ideological agreement.

In particular, the Protestant ethic ( or more specifically, Calvinist ethic ) motivated the believers to work hard, be successful in business and reinvest their profits in further development rather than frivolous pleasures.

The believers thus justified pursuit of profit with religion, as instead of being fuelled by morally suspect greed or ambition, their actions were motivated by a highly moral and respected philosophy.

The three rulers had their claims to the English crown ( Harald probably primarily on the overlord-ship of Northumbria ) and it was this that motivated the battles rather than the lure of plunder.

According to LDS Church general authority Monte J. Brough, " Mormons who baptized 380, 000 Holocaust victims posthumously were motivated by love and compassion and did not understand their gesture might offend Jews ... they did not realize that what they intended as a ' Christian act of service ' was ' misguided and insensitive .'".

Many discussions of psychological egoism focus on this variety, but the two are not the same: one can hold that all actions are ultimately motivated by considerations of self-interest without thinking that all agents conceive of their self-interest in terms of feelings of pleasure and pain.

What they have in common is the ridicule with which their attempts are viewed, the imagery that suggests that they are motivated largely by animal passion, the childish behavior, and the reversion to the love-language of their youth.

DeMause and the psychohistorians respond that their detractors are not largely moved by evidence, but rather are unconsciously motivated to attack those who would challenge the idea of " good parenting " even in very primitive tribes or cultures.

This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.

Spitzer acknowledged that the study sample consisted of people who sought treatment primarily because of their religious beliefs ( 93 % of the sample ), served in various church-related functions, and who publicly spoke in favor of changing homosexual orientation ( 78 %), and thus were strongly motivated to overreport success.