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

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

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.

One large department of Inductive Logic, the so-called Experimental Methods, is designed to help us in thus making sure, i.e., in ascertaining causal sequence as a matter of fact.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William