The failure of the jackscrew was unprecedented as a cause of a crash.
Terrorism is a global threat, and its manifestation in Iraq is a symptom, not a cause, of a wider malaise.
In a victory for Merck, a jury in New Jersey ruled yesterday that the painkiller Vioxx was not a cause of a 68-year-old woman's heart attack.
"The Nobel Literature Prize had become a cause of a psychological disorder, a token whose value and authority as imagined in China was inflated out of all proportions to its real importance or exchange value in international letters," Lovell writes.
Strutton calls the interest of 'no win, no fee' lawyers led by Cross, a former union lawyer who represented the Cleveland dinner ladies, a 'symptom rather than a cause' of a bigger problem.
Advocates for cameras saw the case as an opportunity for public education about the judicial process; opponents regarded the cameras as accessories to, and a cause of, a demeaning circus.
These chemicals have led to illness and death of workers in electrical industries (where they are used in insulation), and more recently, in agriculture, they have been considered a cause of a mysterious and usually fatal disease of cattle.
He is still trying to work out the exact meaning of this fingerprint; he cannot yet tell, for instance, whether a thicker cortex is a cause of a high-reactive temperament, or an effect, or something else entirely.
Gravity is no longer thought of as a force, as in the Newtonian system, but as a cause of a "warping" of space-time, an effect described explicitly by a set of equations formulated by Einstein.
The higher oil price also has been suggested as a cause of a decline in productivity in many countries after 1973, although the causes of the decline are not well understood.
White, who teaches law at the University of Virginia, argues in "The Constitution and the New Deal" that the court-packing plan was, in fact, "a symptom, rather than a cause," of a constitutional revolution that can't be attributed to the New Deal since it was well under way by the 1920's and not fully resolved until the 1940's.
