On the left, Mr. Mamet is accused of having ulterior motives for his political shift.

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Still, capitalists will be capitalists and it comes as no surprise that some billionaires have ulterior motives for going green.

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So liberalisers may have ulterior motives in mind, calculating that external liberalisation will force the pace of domestic financial reform.

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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 three Fury sisters do indeed torture him with both physical pain and madness, but they have ulterior motives as well.

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"You know, what I hear being assessed is all kinds of ulterior motives, and I don't believe they existed, " she said, regarding the coverup accusations.

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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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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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Kerrey denied any ulterior motives.

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