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
Some of them deplored the mess in which they were leaving the nations, without, however, admitting the causal nexus between it and their own achievements.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
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 Rudolf Otto
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