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Meanings of proximate cause in English

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Usage of proximate cause in English
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He does not mean the 'final cause;' he means the ' proximate cause.
Hard Cash
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Those decisions are, surely, the proximate cause for its torrid present.
Wired
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Truly I should like him to explain this union through its proximate cause.
Ethics — Part 5
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It may have been the proximate cause of my sorrows.
The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
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That God is absolutely the proximate cause of those things immediately produced by him.
Ethics — Part 1
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NOS1 dysregulation may be a proximate cause of key phenotypes associated with heart disease.
Pubmed
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Its proximate cause was the brutality of Damophilus, of Enna, and his wife Megallis.
The Gracchi Marius and Sulla / Epochs of Ancient History
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What if all three misfortunes had a single, linear, proximate cause, intelligible to reason?
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
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The sensorial power is excited into a state of activity, this is the proximate cause.
Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
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To these must be added, as a proximate cause, the influence of the American Revolution.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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The decline in house building is the proximate cause of the deceleration in national economic growth.
The Irish Times
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Hence the proximate cause of death and other defects is sin, whereby original justice is withdrawn.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) / From the Complete Ame...
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But he said quietly: The proximate cause, doubtless.
An Unsocial Socialist
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I believe it was the proximate cause of Sebituane's last illness, for it sometimes occasions pneumonia.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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The proximate cause was one of especial singularity.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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The proximate cause of the problem is an inadequate number of officials to deal with asylum seekers.
The Irish Times
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