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
This important causal nexus finds its simplest expression in "the fundamental law of organic development," the content and purport of which we have fully considered in the first chapter.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Newton's theory is probably the greatest stride ever made in the effort towards the causal nexus of natural phenomena.
From Sidelights on Relativity by Albert Einstein
