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Significados de ostensible motive em inglês

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Uso de ostensible motive em inglês
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Business with the steward was the ostensible motive.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
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Nor was the ostensible motive simply a pretext.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 17: 1570-72
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In Pannonia, the ostensible motive was jealousy of the higher pay and easier terms of service of the Prætorian guard.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval Hi...
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The ostensible motive of his call in Gray's Inn was sufficient excuse for this following up of his brother's footsteps.
Birds of Prey
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For by now the civilizing mission, which was the ostensible motive of all their heroic adventures, would have become a rigid obsession.
Star Maker
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The Audience now assembled in the Capuchin Church was collected by various causes, but all of them were foreign to the ostensible motive.
The Monk: A Romance
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Had he other less ostensible motives for delay?
Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War
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But with these ostensible motives for that sojourn assigned by Thucydides, there was another more deep and latent.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book IV
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One great difficulty is to distinguish ostensible motives, or such as we acknowledge to ourselves, from tacit or secret springs of action.
Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
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