He does not mean the 'final cause;' he means the ' proximate cause.

Those decisions are, surely, the proximate cause for its torrid present.

Truly I should like him to explain this union through its proximate cause.

It may have been the proximate cause of my sorrows.

That God is absolutely the proximate cause of those things immediately produced by him.

NOS1 dysregulation may be a proximate cause of key phenotypes associated with heart disease.

Its proximate cause was the brutality of Damophilus, of Enna, and his wife Megallis.

What if all three misfortunes had a single, linear, proximate cause, intelligible to reason?

The sensorial power is excited into a state of activity, this is the proximate cause.

To these must be added, as a proximate cause, the influence of the American Revolution.

The decline in house building is the proximate cause of the deceleration in national economic growth.

Hence the proximate cause of death and other defects is sin, whereby original justice is withdrawn.

But he said quietly: The proximate cause, doubtless.

I believe it was the proximate cause of Sebituane's last illness, for it sometimes occasions pneumonia.

The proximate cause was one of especial singularity.

The proximate cause of the problem is an inadequate number of officials to deal with asylum seekers.