causal nexus
Example Sentences
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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
He finds the causal nexus between Luther and Hindenburg in two important doctrines and several corollaries.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
The psychical phenomena he regards as transcendental, supernatural, “mystical,” yet unquestionably also subject to a strict causal nexus, although the causality must remain for ever concealed.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
