counter-motive

Every detail of the house and garden was familiar; a thousand cords of memory and affection drew him thither; but a stronger counter-motive prevailed.

The House Behind the Cedars 1900

Every detail of the house and garden was familiar; a thousand cords of memory and affection drew him thither; but a stronger counter-motive prevailed.

The House Behind the Cedars 1900

Dunois, himself an unlikely person, one would have thought, to yield the honour of the fight to a woman, seems to have perceived that without a strong counter-motive, not within the range of ordinary methods, the situation was beyond hope.

Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896

Every detail of the house and garden was familiar; a thousand cords of memory and affection drew him thither; but a stronger counter-motive prevailed.

The House Behind the Cedars 1895

Consequently if an act shows depravity, it will require a stronger counter-motive or

The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

But there was a counter-motive even there -- the dying wishes of his mother.

Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune 1863

Dunois, himself an unlikely person, one would have thought, to yield the honour of the fight to a woman, seems to have perceived that without a strong counter-motive, not within the range of ordinary methods, the situation was beyond hope.

Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death 1862

Add to this the supreme irony that the advent of Christendom in war-wracked, post-Pendragon England is made possible by Arthur’s use of the supreme pagan tool, Excalibur, and you have a beautiful cultural fugue of motive and counter-motive that, at once, disqualifies most modern movie makers.

Guy Ritchie Attached to Direct Warren Ellis' Excalibur Movie? « FirstShowing.net 2010