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 is real evolution, a real causal nexus between the present and the past.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

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