chain of causation

collocation in English

meaningsofchainandcausation

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chain
noun
uk
/tʃeɪn/us
/tʃeɪn/
a series of things of the same type connected in a line, or a series of people standing in ...
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causation
noun[U]
uk
/kɔːˈzeɪ.ʃən/us
/kɑːˈzeɪ.ʃən/
the process of causing something to happen ...
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(Definition ofchainandcausationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In this paper one possiblechainofcausationin the understanding of this question is suggested.
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Entities who are earlier in thechainofcausationare deemed less responsible than those later in the chain.
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In contrast, the action of breaking something consists of a much more direct and uninterruptedchainofcausation.
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The former, the risk of criminality, it is sometimes said, "breaks thechainofcausation" between the manager and the customer, while the wet floor does not.
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They generally engage patterns on a global or regional scale that can be used to define achainofcausationfrom global or areal processes to local processes.
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It is inexusable to take those two coincidental happenings and to link them by achainofcausationwhich does not exist.
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For example, if it is merely a medical question of thechainofcausationbetween service and injury.
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I suspect not, because any adviser to a third party would naturally find it difficult in many cases to prove thechainofcausation.
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Thechainofcausationwould then be better defined and the ambit of the clause would not be too wide.
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This is a classicchainofcausation.
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Thechainofcausationis relatively simple.
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Thischainofcausationpurports to show that the cessation of decay, death, and sorrow is indirectly dependent on the cessation of craving.
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Thus, function refers "forward" from the object or process, along somechainofcausation, to the goal or success.
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If this happens, we say that thechainofcausationhas been broken.
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This is often referred to as thechainofcausation.
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Further, the deception must not be too remote from the obtaining, and/or there must be no break in thechainofcausation.
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This reflects the likelihood that if the victim dies, other factors will have contributed to the cause of death, breaking thechainofcausation.
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Compare this to the mechanism of the object or process, which looks backward along somechainofcausation, explaining "how" the feature occurred.
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Between the defendant's acts and the victim's harm, thechainofcausationmust be unbroken.
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