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
To make full use of the conception of the organism as an historical being it is necessary then to understand the causal nexus between ontogeny and phylogeny.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
It is a fact that without the help of previous experience no causal nexus can be referred to an observation, nor can the presence of such be discovered in individual instances.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
