Usage examples for ulterior:

• It is further interesting as a pure case of naval defence, with no ulterior object other than control of home waters. "Some Principles of Maritime Strategy" – Julian Stafford Corbett

• " I confess I couldn't believe that there wasn't an ulterior motive," he said honestly. "An Alabaster Box" – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley

• It is difficult to persuade them that the government has interfered in their behalf simply with a view to their welfare; they imagine that we have some ulterior object in their release; and many have a strong suspicion that they may at some future time be transported to some distant country and sold. "Ismailia" – Samuel W. Baker

• The men I mean are innocent of any ulterior motive: they prefer a lie to truth, simply on its own merits; they like lying, it is their favorite occupation; there is no necessity in the case. "The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece" – Various