Ulterior-motives Sentence Examples

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  • C. Fuller, who succeeded Sir Donald Stewart as chief commissioner early in 1905, was able to report in the following year that among the Ashanti suspicion of the "white man's" ulterior motives was speedily losing ground.

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  • This film was based on an alien invasion in which the aliens presented themselves as friendly, but of course had ulterior motives.

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  • Traditional communities often view a homeschooling family as being weird or having ulterior motives as to why they choose to teach their children at home.

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