causal sequence
Example Sentences
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“The causal sequence is laughter triggers endorphin activation,” he said.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2011
Yet Patrick Kearney preserves with such care the causal sequence of the story that Mr. Dreiser's tragic skeleton, at least, is reproduced in true proportions.
From Time Magazine Archive
A superstition, accordingly, I should define as a belief respecting causal sequence, depending on reasoning proper to an outgrown culture.
From Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk by Bergen, Fanny D. (Fanny Dickerson)
In certain directions our task is next to the historians' who aim to bring men and events into definite causal sequence.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
It has much to commend it even on other grounds than that of affording the perplexed individual a means of escape from the difficulty of accounting for phenomena in terms of causal sequence.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein
