* Though Ashcroft initially opposed the legislation, while he was governor, Missouri enacted its first hate crimes legislation, creating penalties for ethnic intimidation and crimes committed for motives based on race, color, religion, or national origin, and penalties for institutional vandalism for damages to ethnically-related buildings and property.

Critics pointed out that the act also centralized more power in the hands of the governor and accused Chandler of ulterior motives in supporting it.

Apart from his political motives, the Prince was a member of the royal family and the former governor of the Makran province ; he was upset by Pakistan's recognition of Sardar Bay Khan Gichki as Makran's ruler.

The crowd focuses on persuading the governor to free Hat, while the boys appear on Nightline to explain their group's motives.

Another view, for example, is that the biblical text Gen. 1: 28 " Be fruitful and multiply ," is really not a command but a blessing formula and that while there are many factors to consider as far as people's motives for remaining childless, there are many valid reasons, including dedicating one's time to demanding but good causes, why Christians may choose to remain childless for a short time or a lifetime.

Politicians in the British House of Commons and Upper Canada's executive council questioned the motives for the extradition, as well as its legality.

An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives ; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety ( that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition ), from the wish to form some kind of " relationship " with a public figure, or from the desire ( or at least the willingness ) to be killed or commit suicide in the act.

This sensitivity to the hidden motives of other people may be an evolved and universal feature of human consciousness.

Due to the political nature of the Commentarii, Caesar's purpose in publicizing his own achievements may have distorted the significance of events and the motives of those who participated.

It may also be of value for revealing unrecognized motives and conflicts in such conditions.

The term may convey a pejorative connotation that the advocate is driven by political, ideological, financial, or other unscientific motives.

Therefore, additional motives for merger and acquisition that may not add shareholder value include:

A bet for value is in contrast to a bluff or a protection bet ( though some bets may have a combination of these motives ).

It may have been to appease Oswald that Penda had Eadfrith, a captured son of Edwin ( and thus a dynastic rival of Oswald ), killed, although it is also possible that Penda had his own motives for the killing.

Typee may have provided the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke and Jack London with the themes and images of the Pacific experience: cannibalism, cultural absorption, colonialism, exoticism, eroticism, natural plenty and beauty, and a perceived simplicity of native lifestyle, desires and motives.

Finally, whilst motives may not play a role in determining the morality of an action this does not preclude utilitarians from fostering particular motives if doing so will increase overall happiness.

But a popular idol nearly always suffers by removal from immediate contact with the popular sympathy, be the motives for removal what they may.

Specifically, the law usually distinguishes between criminal motive and criminal intent ; the offender's motives or purposes may be admirable and praiseworthy, but his intent may still be criminal.

Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the efforts of one or more people to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.

One cryptic scene in which Grendel sits in the abandoned hall unable to approach the throne hints that his motives may be greed or revenge.

Research in 2008 proposed that ideologies may function as prepackaged units of interpretation that spread because of basic human motives to understand the world, avoid existential threat, and maintain valued interpersonal relationships.

The authors conclude that such motives may lead disproportionately to the adoption of system-justifying worldviews.

His motives are unclear but he may have believed that nobody else would be able to form a government.

Both Nixonians and Contrarians argue that the Guam Doctrine may have masked other needs, intentions, and motives.

Her motives may have been more political than maternal.

In French opera of this period ( such as the works of Grétry and Méhul ), " reminiscence motives " can be identified, which may recur at a significant juncture in the plot to establish an association with earlier events.

Other motives for self-harm do not fit into medicalised models of behaviour and may seem incomprehensible to others, as demonstrated by this quotation:

He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.

He would have to work without questioning the motives which made him work and content himself with the thought that the eventual victory, however it was brought about, would be sweet indeed.

The general board declared: `` Most of the Protestant churches hold contraception and periodic continence to be morally right when the motives are right.

If a ) testimonies conflict one another, b ) there are a small number of witnesses, c ) the speaker has no integrity, d ) the speaker is overly hesitant or bold, or e ) the speaker is known to have motives for lying, then the epistemologist has reason to be skeptical of the speaker's claims.

All the circumstances accompanying the martyrdom were to be inquired into ; the faith of those who suffered, and the motives that animated them were to be rigorously examined, in order to prevent the recognition of undeserving persons.

That is, the motivational internalist believes that there is an internal, necessary connection between one's conviction that X ought to be done and one's motivation to do X. Conversely, the motivational externalist ( or moral externalist ) claims that there is no necessary, internal connection between moral convictions and moral motives.

In Ahmadiyya Islam, pacifism is a strong current, and jihad is one's personal inner struggle and should not be used violently for political motives.

A manifesto is a written public declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.

The King's letter to Clement XIII promised that his allowance of 100 piastres each year would be withdrawn for the whole order, should any one of them venture at any time to write anything in self-defence or in criticism of the motives for the expulsion, motives that he refused to discuss, then or in the future.

Per Scudamore's biography, " Milligan's fans and the theatrical world in general found it hard to believe that he was to appear in a straight play ... He refused to be serious when questioned about his motives.

Along the way, they discover the motives of their blue-skinned adversaries: the planet Gamilas, sister planet to Iscandar, is dying ; and its leader, Lord Desslar (" Desslok " in the Star Blazers dub ), is trying to irradiate Earth enough for his people to move there, at the expense of the " barbarians " he considers humanity to be.

Bentham very carefully distinguishes motive from intention and says that motives are not in themselves good or bad but can be referred to as such on account of their tendency to produce pleasure or pain.

In another much-publicized case, issues have been raised about the underlying motives that led to the balloon boy hoax, in which six-year-old Falcon Heene was reportedly coerced by his father to stage for a frantic, live-on-TV chase for an out-of-control helium balloon, in which he was suspected to be.

When motives conflict, the higher ideal is to be followed.