Her primary motivation is to steal Uncle Scrooge's Number One Dime and melt it in the fires of the volcano to turn it into a powerful magical amulet, capable of granting the Midas Touch.

For example, an antihero may steal, vandalize, and perform other " bad " acts but may do so for a good cause or even an unexamined motivation.

The primary motivation of the player is to escape the island and, in the process, dealing with the forces working to steal the Shaper secrets abandoned on Sucia Isle.

This can work even retrospectively: as a stolen credit card can easily be invalidated with a phone call to the issuing bank, the motivation to steal one is reduced.

more than any other NFL Franchise is what spawned the title of " America's Team ", a title Landry did not appreciate because he felt it would bring on extra motivation from the rest of the league to compete with the Cowboys.

In modern colloquial usage, the term " hermit " denotes anyone living a life apart from the rest of society, or who simply does not participate in social events as much as is common, regardless of their motivation in doing so, including the misanthrope.

The motivation for phasing out OAC was largely thought of as a cost-saving measure by the Progressive Conservatives, and to bring Ontario in line with the rest of the provinces.

In 1953, the motivation of secretary-captain Charles Palmer lifted the side fleetingly to third place, but most of the rest of the 1950s was spent propping up the table, or thereabouts.

Louisa tries to explain herself and her motivation for giving away all that money which leads into the rest of the story, a primarily romantic flashback with occasional fantasies from Louisa's point of view including a Marnie type aversion to the colour pink.

Later in the same year, under the motivation of Demosthenes, a confederation of the Athenians and the Thebans was organized against the Macedonians, which the Amfissians and the rest of the Ozolian Locrians joined.

This included books on animal behavior / ethology, sensory perception, motivation and cognition.

He added that, since guests are never paid appearance fees, it is inevitable that promotion of books, videos, and web sites is often a motivation for guests to sacrifice a night's sleep.

The theme of police officer suicide, which runs through many of Wambaugh's books, provides a grim undercurrent to the black humor of the novel and suggests a sub-conscious motivation for their activities.

His books dealt with many topics including hiring workers who had personalities and mental abilities best suited to certain types of vocations as the best way to increase motivation, performance, and retention, methods of increasing work efficiency, and marketing and advertising techniques.

He has written several books on management motivation.

Rolston found in the " Cyclopedia of the Realms " book a " less-satisfying treatment of gods and religion " than that in books such as Deities & Demigods and Legends & Lore, as while " the major archetypes and game elements are covered, there's little detail, motivation, or game information provided for the deities ".

But as he sorted through several books in a library, volumes of self-help, success and motivation books captured Mandino's attention.

The book promises to be one of the most exciting and innovative books ever written on the subject of developing and maintaining the Will Power, motivation, and self-discipline necessary to achieve greatness in your personal and professional life.

School programs that provide money or prizes for reading books have been criticized for their potential to reduce intrinsic motivation by overjustification.

McKenna has written and produced books and multimedia products, hosted self-improvement television shows and presents seminars in hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, weight loss, motivation and the Zen meditation Big Mind.

Motivation usually makes the difference between " good " and " bad ," but motivation also includes the aspect of ignorance ; so a well-intended action from an ignorant mind can easily be " bad " in that it creates unpleasant results for the " actor.

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.

Furthermore, a firm grasp of set theoretical concepts from a naive standpoint is important as a first stage in understanding the motivation for the formal axioms of set theory.

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 ".

However members of the government and army, who resented Sihanouk's ruling style as well as his tilt away from the United States, did have a motivation to overthrow him.

A fundamental distinction can be drawn between theories that demand that agents act for ends in which they have some personal interest or motivation and theories that demand that agents act for ends perhaps disconnected from their own interests and drives.

The motivation behind its exclusion from the CSA was that, under the CSA, all optical isomers of listed Schedule II opiates are automatically Schedule II substances.

Though designed strictly as a mechanism to support " natural language conversation " with a computer, ELIZA's DOCTOR script was found to be surprisingly successful in eliciting emotional responses from users who, in the course of interacting with the program, began to ascribe understanding and motivation to the program's output.

After the death of his father in 1913, Edwin returned to the Midwest from Oxford, but did not have the motivation to practice law.

Most of the EDA vendors produced EDIF 2 0 0 translators, but they were definitely more interested in generating high-quality EDIF readers, and they had absolutely no motivation at all to write any software that generated EDIF ( an EDIF Writer ), beyond threats from customers of mass migration to another vendor's software.

Despite the motivation from coloring political maps of countries, the theorem is not of particular interest to mapmakers.

Singer's declaration read: " Energy is essential for economic growth ... We understand the motivation to eliminate what are perceived to be the driving forces behind a potential climate change ; but we believe the Kyoto Protocol — to curtail carbon dioxide emissions from only a part of the world community — is dangerously simplistic, quite ineffective, and economically destructive to jobs and standards-of-living.

In addition, the White Guard leadership were uncertain whether common troopers drafted from the small-sized and poor farms of central and northern Finland had strong enough motivation to fight the Finnish Reds.

The Hungarian ethnomusicologist Bence Szabolcsi explained this motivation as follows: " Hungarians are the outermost branch leaning this way from age-old tree of the great Asian musical culture rooted in the souls of a variety of peoples living from China through Central Asia to the Black Sea ".

In Why I Became an IWW, Keller explained that her motivation for activism came in part from her concern about blindness and other disabilities:

" Nonstate theorists rejected the idea of hypnotic trance and interpret the effects of hypnotism as due to a combination of multiple task-specific factors derived from normal cognitive, behavioural, and social psychology, such as social role-perception and favorable motivation ( Sarbin ), active imagination and positive cognitive set ( Barber ), response expectancy ( Kirsch ), and the active use of task-specific subjective strategies ( Spanos ).

International trade is, in principle, not different from domestic trade as the motivation and the behavior of parties involved in a trade do not change fundamentally regardless of whether trade is across a border or not.

Next, motivation results in persistence, preventing one from deviating from the goal-seeking behavior.

Understandably, the area of leadership motivation draws heavily from the abundant research literature in the domain of motivation in I – O psychology.

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

The government finds motivation from its experts ' assertions, that cannabis of that strength have an " unacceptable risk " associated with its usage.