Motivation is the underlying reason a person has for acting or behaving in a particular way.
The girl's eyes light up when she sees her grandmother behaving in such silly ways.
Which is not to say that all European commissioners should start behaving in the same way.
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It also emerged that he admitted another, separate, charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner.
He said increased transparency would help the public judge whether companies were behaving in a responsible way.
In the first place, these people they are behaving in a way - in a manner that nobody can understand.
He admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner after being caught by police who were monitoring websites.
Now anecdotal information about some of these suspects suggests that some of them were behaving in unusual ways.
It is not surprising that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are behaving in this manner.
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Which is not to say that I can know that every trader is behaving in an entirely legal manner, either.
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People are behaving in a friendly manner again, which is something that has been missing for the past three days.
In openly undermining the Knesset and the government, Weinstein is behaving in a manner that is contrary to the law.
We often make assumptions about one another, without trying to understand why a colleague is behaving in a certain way, he says.
But clearly there are individual officers who are behaving in this way.
And there are other people who would say, well, you know what, because the cameras are there, people are behaving in this way.
He was also found guilty of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner on 24 August at a flat at Inverness Street, Glasgow.
For as much as I wanted to believe that buyers were rational creatures behaving in predictable patterns, I now understand that they are not.
Under the order police officers can disperse groups of two or more people from the area if they are behaving in an anti-social manner.
He was also found guilty of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner on 24 August 2012 at a flat in Inverness Street, Glasgow.
The rub is that some of the real solutions are very strange, and involve the balls behaving in extraordinarily unlikely, but not impossible, ways.
Interestingly, although formal agreement on the crucial issues had not been reached with France either, Paris was behaving in a more constructive way than Berlin.
"I got a letter from TV Licensing to tell me that I was behaving in an illegal manner by watching television in my residence, " he said.
Since Mubarak was ousted, the ruling military junta has taken actions that signal that Egypt is no longer interested in behaving in a manner that advances US interests.
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Sgt Karen Radford, from the force's community safety unit, added she hoped the force's action would discourage the perpetrators and their peers "from behaving in a similar fashion in the future".
Bowman, in a separate case, pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening manner likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear and alarm in Manor Street, Falkirk, on 4 August.
Government bureaucrats were fellow Americans behaving in foolish ways.
There is central supervision and regulation of eurozone banks, to stop them behaving in the way that those in Ireland, Spain and Cyprus did - or so recklessly that they come close to bankrupting the state.
Parents establish rules and modes of acceptable behavior as a training ground for children, so that when they eventually make a transition into the world, they will be accustomed to behaving in ways deemed socially acceptable.
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One looks at a handsome young stage actor like Stephen Campbell Moore, who, as the hero, Adam Fenwick-Symes, has penetrating eyes, and one thinks, Why is this fine-looking young man behaving in such a feckless and stupid way?
Another witness, Kathleen Brazier, told the hearing she had been involved with horses since childhood and, earlier in the day, had seen one of the animals in a pen behaving in a "skittish" manner before it leapt over the barrier.
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