Cause in sentence

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They help absorb anthrax that would otherwise spread and cause huge livestock losses and diseases in other animals.

The supply of young men willing to fight and die for this cause is dwindling.

Well, there, there are good statistics, because many municipalities recorded the cause of death.

Unfortunately, I picture it made in Germany or Japan, but this amazing machine that's constantly scouring every bit of human endeavor and taking resources, money, labor, capital, machinery, away from the least productive parts and towards the more productive parts, and while this might cause temporary dislocation, what it does is it builds up the more productive areas and lets the less productive areas fade away and die, and as a result the whole system is so much more efficient, so much richer for everybody.

So, "give the X to the Y," that construction corresponds to the thought "cause X to go to Y." Whereas "give the Y the X" corresponds to the thought "cause Y to have X."

When you construe it as "cause the mouse to have something," you're doing something to the mouse, and therefore you express it as, "Give the mouse the muffin."

Second conclusion is that the ability to conceive of a given event in two different ways, such as "cause something to go to someone" and "causing someone to have something," I think is a fundamental feature of human thought, and it's the basis for much human argumentation, in which people don't differ so much on the facts as on how they ought to be construed.

At the same time, this sort of constant mind-wandering is also a direct cause of unhappiness.

He instantly saw that I was the cause of the commotion, and for the first time in my life, I was sent to the hall, and I thought, "Oh no, I'm doomed.

In particular, nobody wants an operation with tools like these through large incisions that cause a lot of pain, that cause a lot of time out of work or out of school, that leave a big scar.

One percent doesn't sound like a lot, but it would cause one hell of an ice age here.

You know, you gotta ask when you go to a restaurant if it's a wild fish, cause they're not going to tell you.

My linguistics and economics colleagues at Yale and I are just starting to do this work and really explore and understand the ways that these subtle nudges cause us to think more or less about the future every single time we speak.

And that person made a career out of using the Freedom of Information Act to advance his political cause.

The point is, that person made a career out of using the Freedom of Information Act to advance his cause.

What policy prescriptions have happened that actually cause changes to occur and that have been accepted in a bipartisan way?

There's no other cause.

But you do a little $1 million community fundraiser for the poor, and it doesn't produce a 75 percent profit to the cause in the first 12 months, and your character is called into question.

Now, this ideology gets policed by this one very dangerous question, which is, "What percentage of my donation goes to the cause versus overhead?"

First, it makes us think that overhead is a negative, that it is somehow not part of the cause.

Now, this idea that overhead is somehow an enemy of the cause creates this second, much larger problem, which is, it forces organizations to go without the overhead things they really need to grow, in the interest of keeping overhead low.

So we've all been taught that charities should spend as little as possible on overhead things like fundraising under the theory that, well, the less money you spend on fundraising, the more money there is available for the cause.

But if it's a logical world in which investment in fundraising actually raises more funds and makes the pie bigger, then we have it precisely backwards, and we should be investing more money, not less, in fundraising, because fundraising is the one thing that has the potential to multiply the amount of money available for the cause that we care about so deeply.

So in this way, by doing this kind of test, we can draw cause and effect relationships between the activity of specific neurons in particular circuits and particular behaviors, something that is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to do right now in humans.

So when we take away the dopamine receptor and the flies take longer to calm down, from that we infer that the normal function of this receptor and dopamine is to cause the flies to calm down faster after the puff.

But it could equally be the case that it's the learning disabilities that cause the hyperactivity.

Whether the same thing is true in ADHD in humans we don't know, but these kinds of results should at least cause us to consider that possibility.

You weed down through various steps that cause many of these to fail.

Cystic fibrosis had its molecular cause discovered in 1989 by my group working with another group in Toronto, discovering what the mutation was in a particular gene on chromosome 7.

Third most common cause of death amongst people between the ages of 15 and 25.

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