Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

To Northerners, in contrast, the motivation was primarily to preserve the Union, not to abolish slavery.

Indeed, the problem of determining the area of plane figures was a major motivation for the historical development of calculus.

His kingdom was faced with a threat from the north from the Franks ; according to Peter Heather, this was his motivation for marrying Chrotilda, the daughter of Clovis.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the East electrode ' ( other candidates had been " eastode ", " oriode " and " anatolode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

His pupil, successor, and eventual biographer Rimbert considered the visions of which this was the first to be the main motivation of the saint's life.

It is also worth noting that part of the original motivation of the search for stellar parallax was to test the Copernican theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun, but of course the existence of aberration also establishes the truth of that theory.

Another important motivation for the Big Dig in its final form was the abandonment of the Massachusetts Highway Department's intended expressway system through and around Boston.

In reference to the death of Lani Morris, she said that perhaps Morris was " not coming from a place of integrity and did not have the right motivation ".

The motivation for community colleges was a new way of thinking about education and training in Canada ( more specifically in Ontario ), and was economically based as opposed to the much earlier start in the United States of Junior and Community Colleges which was driven by an integrative social policy.

A possible inference is, that one can not be blamed for mistaken judgements if the motivation was to do good.

The FBI's stated motivation was " protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order.

Therefore, the only motivation for labour was either the possibility of great reward or fear of hunger.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the West electrode ' ( other candidates had been " westode ", " occiode " and " dysiode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

This was the motivation of observed caste lines in the Roman Empire.

" Part of his motivation for the book was to look for alternative forms of learning that made use of the enormous potential of the human psyche in more fruitful ways.

But it was not confined to this sphere, and permeated just as strongly his theories of motivation, action, and morality.

Industry observers, however, speculated that the most important motivation was that a name change would help Nissan market stocks and bonds in the U. S. They also presumed substantial ego involvement, since the absence of the Nissan name in the U. S. surely rankled Nissan executives who had seen Toyota and Honda become household words.

The motivation of the actions of a draugr was primarily jealousy and greed.

An impoverished home that may discourage one child may constitute the motivation causing another to work harder for successful achievement in school.

This motivation has been criticized on the grounds that the result of a Lorentz-transformation does not itself constitute an observable phenomenon.

Despite all such fluidity, there is broad agreement that it is essentially the twenties and thirties which constitute ' Early adulthood ... the basis for what Levinson calls the Dream-a vision of his her goal's in life which provide motivation and enthusiasm for the future '.

Social representations about juju constitute consensual realities that propose both a means and motivation for genital-shrinking experience.

These same characters also purchase associated products and adult-oriented dojinshi based on the series, which constitute the motivation for some of the " club activities " held by the Genshiken.

The motivation for this policy change was to finance World War I ; one of the results was inflation, and a rise in the gold price, along with the corresponding drop in international exchange rates for the pound.

Eugene Debs helped motivate the American Left as a measure of political opposition to corporations and World War I. American socialists, communists, and anarchists honor his compassion for the labor movement and motivation to have the average working man build socialism without large state involvement.

The possibility of securing an early berth for the Olympic Games, thus avoiding extraneous and in some cases tight continental qualification procedures, became a consistent motivation for the national federations to participate in the World Cup.

A defensive midfielder who is known for his excellent passing and tackling skills, Niko was, at the time of his retirement, the oldest player in the Croatian squad and had been an important motivation raiser for them, having captained them at UEFA Euro 2004, the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2008.

When they re-emerged after the first World War, compounded with the example of the Bolsheviks in winning a revolution, an ( falsely nostalgic ) longing for the conditions which had transpired during the war was a major motivation for fascism.

I so desperately wanted to go to my fourth World Cup, but deep down inside I knew that I was lacking motivation and the enjoyment levels were just not there.

Damian cited the death of his mother as motivation for winning his first World Championship in 2003.

A CEP spokesperson explained that the group's motivation was a desire to avoid the sort of Anglophobic violence that marred the 2006 World Cup.

Baseball statistician Bill James has suggested that the Giants ' loss to the Chicago White Sox in the 1917 World Series may have been partial motivation for Zimmerman's suspension.

Economic and political motivation existed to flee the Eastern Bloc for the West, and millions did so.

Robert Spitzer, a lead architect of the DSM-III, has held the opinion that the addition of cultural formulations was an attempt to placate cultural critics, and that they lack any scientific motivation or support.

Educational psychology research on motivation is concerned with the volition or will that students bring to a task, their level of interest and intrinsic motivation, the personally held goals that guide their behavior, and their belief about the causes of their success or failure.

The most widely held view of the Note Crisis is that the Soviet Union's motivation was to ensure Kekkonen's re-election.

the play's strongly patriotic themes were credited by the Conservative Party for helping them secure a large percentage of the middle class votes, despite the fact Coward had conceived the project a full year before the election was held, and the playwright strenuously denied having any motivation to influence its outcome.

This probably dealt a fatal blow to any chance of permanent peace between Rome and Carthage and is one of the causes of the Second Punic War and held as the motivation of the subsequent military and political activities of Hamilcar.

The main motivation for introducing this component was the observation that some ( in particular, highly intelligent ) patients with amnesia, who presumably have no ability to encode new information in long-term memory, nevertheless have good short-term recall of stories, recalling much more information than could be held in the phonological loop.

Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry of the United Kingdom, which held the Council's rotating presidency in October 2004, said that the 15-member body " reaffirmed their view that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations constitutes one of the most serious threats to international peace and security, and that any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, whenever and by whomsoever committed.

Einstein originally introduced this term in his pioneering 1917 paper on cosmology, with a very specific motivation: contemporary cosmological thought held the universe to be static, and the additional term was required for constructing static model universes within the framework of general relativity.

First lectures were held in the building of a secondary school, and first dormitories for the students were just tents amidst the forest ; but the spirit of novelty and the lust for education and research created a strong motivation among the first students.

But according to the Humean theory of motivation, a theory that Smith defends in chapter 4, it is not possible for a belief ( a judgement about a matter of fact ) to motivate someone without the presence of some antecedently held desire.

The Court held that the First Amendment's protection of the " free exercise " of religion does not allow a person to use a religious motivation as a reason not to obey such generally applicable laws.

The paper voiced its fear that the minority coalition government, which held a shaky 5-seat parliamentary support at the time, would fall as Jočić's motivation for disrupting the thorough police action.