Most people now consider blog posts to be the closest thing to a personal recommendation, and since we assume that there is generally no ulterior motive for a blogger to write the piece, readers consider a blog post at face value.

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No slyness, no false generosity, sentimentality or modesty, no affecting a pose (or position) for ulterior advantage and no shrinking from a full commitment to his beliefs.

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That's going to take some commitments from people and companies with a lot of power and a lot of ulterior motives, not all of them aligned.

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"The defense is going to say the charges are nonsense and that the kids that reported this had ulterior motives, " said Thomas Mesereau, a California attorney who successfully defended late pop star Michael Jackson against child-molestation charges in 2005.

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Financial planners will often give away a financial plan for free because their ulterior motive is to get at your money, invest it, and earn fees and commissions.

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The question is whether this was just a coincidence, or whether there was an ulterior motive involved here.

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Is it now a crime to write a contract that doesn't reveal all the ulterior motives of the people signing it?

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The writers are doing her a terrible disservice in keeping her around Woodbury without some ulterior motive.

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Yanukovich wanted to get rid of the opposition which had first swept him out of power and which was still questioning his legitimacy, and so he turned to a law that was all too able to accommodate such ulterior motives.

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