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An early critic of Williams is E.J. Bond in his book Reason and Value (1983) where he urges, echoing Frankena's earlier critique of internalism, that Williams 'argument is undermined if we distinguish clearly between what he calls motivating reasons and grounding reasons.

Reasons for Action: Justification vs. Explanation Lenman, James 2009

In an interview set to air Monday on CNN's The Situation Room, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was asked whether Obama's status as the first African-American president is playing any role in motivating anti-government groups.

Expressions of political anger are protected, Napolitano says 2010

The goal to be the first country to send a man to the moon proved instrumental in motivating this country to focus on K-12 education on the math and the sciences.

Bill Donius: Two Million Minutes: Waiting for "Superman", the next Space Race, or Graduation? Public Education in America Bill Donius 2010

Clearly, scientifically formulated principles of morality are much more powerful in motivating public school students who have no religious foundation to make use of them in daily living because these ideas about how to behave are consistent with the scientific worldview which pervades everything else they learn at school.

A Blueprint for Resolving the Current Crisis in the American Way of Life « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

Democrats face a big hurdle in motivating young voters to go to the polls this November, according to two new surveys released today.

Young voters not engaged in midterms, surveys show Felicia Sonmez 2010

I suspect the "everything is going to be OK so the government can just stay out of it" bias played a key role in motivating many conservatives and libertarians to be favorably disposed toward skeptical findings about global warming.

The Consequences of Pessimistic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But he served an equally important function in motivating future engineers and astronauts as a lecturer at Space Camp for years after his retirement from NASA.

Konrad Dannenberg - NASA Watch 2009

The goal to be the first country to send a man to the moon proved instrumental in motivating this country to focus on K-12 education on the math and the sciences.

Bill Donius: Two Million Minutes: Waiting for "Superman" , the next Space Race, or Graduation? Public Education in America Bill Donius 2010

But he served an equally important function in motivating future engineers and astronauts as a lecturer at Space Camp for years after his retirement from NASA.

NASA Watch: February 2009 Archives 2009

The goal to be the first country to send a man to the moon proved instrumental in motivating this country to focus on K-12 education on the math and the sciences.

Bill Donius: Two Million Minutes: Waiting for "Superman" , the next Space Race, or Graduation? Public Education in America Bill Donius 2010