English-Finnish translations for motive

motiiviMikä on motiivi tässä asiassa? What is the motive behind this? Meidän kaikkien olisi syytä muistaa, että järjestäytyneen rikollisuuden tärkein motiivi on taloudellinen hyöty. We should all recall that the primary motive of organised crime is financial gain. Mikä on se motiivi, jonka takia ihmiset tekevät kyseisen toimen, tai minkä takia he investoivat rahaa kyseisiin toimiin? What is the motive which causes people to carry out such action or to invest money in it?
aiheMietinnön aiheena on laittomassa maahanmuutossa avustaminen, ja koska tämä on arkaluonteinen aihe, joka herättää paljon tunteita, haluan selvittää tarkoitusperiäni. In view of the sensitivity of the subject, assistance with illegal immigration, a subject that always triggers intense emotions, I wish to explain my motives. Mistä aiheesta ajattelit tehdä kirjoitelman?Mikä oli mylväisyn aihe?

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vaikutinMinusta tämä on edelleen mietinnön keskeinen vaikutin ja kiitän siitä esittelijää ja kollegoitani, jotka esittivät asiasta ajatuksiaan. I continue to see this as the leading motive of this report, for which I thank the rapporteur and my colleagues who contributed their thoughts.
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An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.
A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
A motif.
To prompt or incite by a '''motive''or motives; to move
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
Relating to motion and/or to its cause

What would his motive be for burning down the cottage?
No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best
If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive
a motive argument
motive power

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