Motivation is the underlying reason a person has for acting or behaving in a particular way.
Modifying a child's behavior first requires an understanding of the underlying reason for the behavior.
Also, the underlying reason for the yen's depreciation is as important as the pattern of it.
Nor will lower taxes do much for deeper-seated flaws in Italy's economy which, some believe, are the underlying reason for its sluggishness.
But the underlying reason is that Mr Jospin and French voters, of both right and left, have an instinctive mistrust of globalisation.
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One underlying reason for the impasse is that many of the services provided by the state's infrastructure are virtually free, and consumed accordingly.
There are other ways to shrink the gap between Germany's high savings rate and relatively low investment, the underlying reason for its current-account surplus.
It's not clear whether there's any underlying reason for the war of words, though the men battled last year over how to handle traffic tickets.
The underlying reason this works is that the money in personal accounts would be invested in private sector businesses, which would use them to create new wealth.
The underlying reason is the ever-growing number of independent voters.
The underlying reason, and the cause of much frustration for the Tories, is that this government may more closely reflect the country it governs than any of its predecessors.
For them, the shortage of credit is not the underlying reason why the UK economy can't wake from its torpor (although the the credit crunch sent the economy into its torpor five years ago).
Dr. Jennifer Holter, who has been treating Billy at Oklahoma University Medical Center since the fall of 2008, says several immunologists have reviewed his case but the underlying reason for his immunodeficiency is still unclear.
The other really deep reason is the underlying rate of economic change.
The central bank now has reason to reverse course because the underlying causes of inflation (oil, commodity and food prices) are easing and the economic outlook for the euro zone has deteriorated.
His report says there is "no appetite or good reason to change the basic approach underlying British military campaign medals policy", which is that they "should be awarded sparingly, on the basis of genuine risk and rigour".
The reason for this is the second important underlying point.
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The reason is simple: the rent, a key fundamental underlying house prices, is expensive here.
There is no reason to assume that these phenomena cluster into diagnostic categories or are the consequences of underlying illnesses.
In summary, you may want to try to figure out the reason for your mother-in-law's bath refusal and then address the underlying cause to encourage her to bathe more often.
Rafael Coven, the adviser to the underlying index for PZD, noted that the poor performance of most renewable energy stocks in 2010 was a major reason why Cleantech Index-based funds (such as PZD) significantly outperformed their peers.
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