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motivo in English:

1. sake sake


A brewery we finance has made a new sweet sake and brought some to us asking us to try it.
For heavens sake.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Imagine, for the sake of argument, a tribal group in which mother-son incest was countenanced.
An adventurous sort, Lester downed the whole bottle of habu sake in one show-stopping chug. Only the snake was left, securing Lester as an Okinawan national treasure.
It is a toss-up whether to drink sake or whiskey; too much of either results equally in drunken revelry.
Cheap sake makes you sick.
Whoo! I'm feeling that sake. I'm getting blurred vision and it's hard to walk.
For the sake of completeness, let us mention that the ring R - considered as a module over itself - has submodules of arbitrarily large finite length.
For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
For the sake of children in need, we cooperated to collect donations.
I'm saying "For the sake of Earth's environment," but actually it's "For the sake of the people living on Earth."
My husband likes to have a drink in the evening. He drinks 6 or more bottles of sparkling wine and 5 or 6 bottles of warm sake. Sometimes he has a day where he doesn't drink, but it has never lasted for more than two days.
What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church … a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

English word "motivo"(sake) occurs in sets:

Fichas del libro - "Zoe" (Evelyn Whitaker)
Fichas del libro - "Wanda, Vol. 3 (of 3)" (Ouida)
Fichas del libro - "Anarchism" (Paul Eltzbacher)
Fichas del libro - "Verse and Worse" (Harry Graham)
Fichas del libro - "Niece Catherine" (Mary Hampden)

2. motive motive


What's his motive for committing murder?
The motive for the murder is not yet known.
Jealousy was the motive for the murder.
They were there with some other motive in mind which she still didn't know about.
You may rest assured; I have no ulterior motive in making this donation.
These days, the motive for marriage is not necessarily pure.
Bomb-making criminals frequently have the motive of wanting public attention.
Your motive was admirable, but your action was not.
They still haven't been able to work out quite what her motive was for resorting to crime.
She is acting from some selfish motive.
Now we are better able to understand their motive.
We know the woman was murdered, but do we know what the motive was?
I don't get the motive of the killer.
What is your motive?
Catherine had an ulterior motive when she urged her father to buy a new car. She hoped that she'd be able to drive it herself.

English word "motivo"(motive) occurs in sets:

Fichas del libro - "Wanda, Vol. 1 (of 3)" (Ouida)
Fichas del libro - "Othmar" (Ouida)
Fichas del libro - "The Mystery of M. Felix" (B. L...
Fichas del libro - "The Old Man in the Corner" (Ba...
Fichas del libro - "The Bibliotaph and Other Peopl...