causal nexus
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“He seems to have established a sufficient causal nexus between Councilperson Wade and the alleged constitutional injury of his arrest,” the court said in an unsigned opinion in February.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2017
“Even if pesticide residues are found, a causal nexus cannot be drawn,” Félix Carvalho, a toxicologist at the University of Porto, in Portugal, says.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2016
It shall be sufficient if there is a probable causal nexus between death and persecution.
From Time Magazine Archive
To make full use of the conception of the organism as an historical being it is necessary then to understand the causal nexus between ontogeny and phylogeny.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
And the essential difference between this kind of operation and a mechanical operation is, that the same typical effect is always reached, even if the whole normal causal nexus be disturbed.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
