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

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

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)