causal sequence

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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

But neither of us makes any pretense that his belief is derived from a scrutiny of the causal sequence.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

My own explanation of the causal sequence whereby expanding trade brings money into a country would be radically different from that given by Fisher in the first quotation.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

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