That was one of the big motivating factors.

But the other motivating factor is the insular nature of our country.

He's beginning to have images that are motivating him to get up.

Now people are motivated through emotions, but different people find different things motivating.

In that way, what's happening is that we're motivating a certain age group to start thinking.

If you can find a motivating thing to do, that's because you hold strong belief in it.

This is a simulation that uses graphics, but other people find motivating what money can buy, not just numbers.

Okay. This is getting stronger and stronger to the point where it's actually going to be a motivating factor.

In some host countries (e.g. China and Malaysia), ethnicity and social connections played a role in motivating Singaporean investments there.

Mr. Ian Burton, independent consultant, Canada, stressed the importance of motivating individuals to spread technologies for adaptation, especially relating to extreme events.

As long as you have someone you love from the heart, you have a motivating force and you can face the entire world.

These developments are motivating American and European investors to rethink their strategies in Africa, prompting a terms of trade revival and generating interest in Africa s expanding regional markets.

People that have grown up in such a paradigm might find it motivating, but it is a mistake to assume that everyone thrives under the pressure of choosing alone.

He did one great thing resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis. And his gift for motivating people was unmatched indeed, it outlasted him, with his assassination cementing a powerful legacy.

Leadership is assumed to facilitate performance by offering a vision for management, by supporting system improvement and integration, and by motivating relevant actors to act for a common purpose.

So on top to the many barriers the government has raised to delay the referendum, the opposition now faces another challenge motivating people to go out to the streets and protest.

These important achievements mark yet another milestone in the administration of international criminal justice, thus motivating States to fulfil their duty to bring to justice persons who have committed mass atrocities.

This is no ordinary academic debate. The controversy has spilled out of the psychology laboratories and psychiatric clinics, capturing headlines, motivating legislative changes, and affecting outcomes in civil lawsuits and criminal trials.

(f) Motivating a coalition of child focused international development organizations, through the GMC Convening Committee, to use its collective advocacy power in support of orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV AIDS.

The lesson therefore is that revitalizing public administration systems goes beyond producing new organigrams and workflow charts and entails recruiting, training, deploying and motivating the personnel capable of operating the new processes.

Much attention will given to the Millennium Development Goals, which have proven to be a very effective means of motivating support for strategies which, if successful, would result in massive improvements to many peoples lives around the world.

Thank you Simone, Aly, Laurie, Gabby and Madison for that serious showcase of Girl Power in winning the Olympic team gold and for motivating so many young girls of all backgrounds to begin their path to be healthy, strong and successful young women.

I think that failure can be an incredibly motivating force as well, so I moved to Kenya and worked in Uganda, and I met a group of Rwandan women, who asked me, in 1986, to move to Kigali to help them start the first microfinance institution there.

(d) Compensation management to develop a competitive, motivating and cost effective compensation system that (i) enhances the Agency's ability to attract and retain high calibre staff (ii) recognizes team and individual contributions and (iii) ensures that all posts are classified at an appropriate level in accordance with transparent, objective and equitable principles

1. In these recommendations, the terms volunteering, volunteerism and voluntary activities refer to a wide range of activities, including traditional forms of mutual aid and self help, formal service delivery and other forms of civic participation, undertaken of free will, for the general public good and where monetary reward is not the principal motivating factor.

Rather than adopting the Western model of motivating every link in the supply chain to adhere to specified quality and safety standards, the government continues to rely on top down policies. But the decentralized, dispersed nature of many industries, the absence of an effective regulatory infrastructure, and the lack of firm level inducements undermine the effectiveness of this approach.

In studying physics, students study algebra simultaneously, motivating them with a sense of the power of mathematics. Moreover, physics begins with everyday phenomena requiring few new words (as opposed to conventional ninth grade biology) motion, velocity, acceleration, falling objects, a sense of gravity as a force, and some new concepts, e.g. mass, momentum, and energy, but with crisp definitions.

US pledges to defend Japan against a nuclear attack from China or North Korea have played a decisive role in dissuading the Japanese from seeking their own nuclear weapons. Given this, a Chinese nuclear surge even one that did not lead to US China parity could undermine the credibility of American deterrence commitments, possibly motivating Japan to launch its own nuclear program.

In an illiteracy context, where superstition and other taboos are commonly associated to school failure, its quite reasonable to believe that the presence of a teacher could become a strong motivating factor for reduction of drop outs and restoration of emotional equilibrium and security of families, that are often eager to remove their daughters from school fearing unwanted pregnancy and sexual abuse.

Lee seems to have misjudged the strength of his election victory and the currents of opinion in several important ways. Given the nationalist sentiments motivating the beef protesters, the strength of opposition forces, and widespread hostility to opening and privatizing the South Korean economy further, Lee, whose authoritarian style of management reminds many of the era of military rule, will now need to move forward carefully.

Another reason why we do not give to prevent disasters should be familiar to anyone who has ever delayed going to the dentist because the prospect of serious pain in the coming weeks or months just wasn t as motivating as the reluctance to face some more immediate slight discomfort. We tell ourselves that maybe we won t get a toothache after all, even though we know that the odds are that we will.

When I first interviewed Blair, as newly elected Labour leader in 1994, he answered my question about the role of his Christianity in his politics by saying, I can t stand politicians who go on about religion. If I had to date the moment when my own misgivings about him began, it would be the time starting after September 11, 2001 when he began to emphasize his own faith as a motivating factor in his moral stand.