Sentence examples for a first cause from inspiring English sources

Such a first cause is an important aspect, though not the entirety, of what Christianity means by God.

The Greeks traced the idea of God to a "first cause" that stood behind all other causes and effects.

It can also be proved from self-evident truths by valid argument (by an argument whose conclusion cannot be false if its premises are true) that a first cause, or God, must exist.

An example of the latter is the cosmological argument, which appeals to the notion of causation to conclude either that there is a first cause or that there is a necessary being from whom all contingent beings derive their existence.

It was as if somewhere in this litany of gender uncertainty, rejection by men, and furtive molestation there might be an early clue, a first cause, a reason that would make Teena's subsequent ventures across the gender divide easier to accommodate.

Each cause is itself the effect of a further cause or set of causes; this chain moves in a series that either never ends or is completed by a first cause, which must be of a radically different nature in that it is not itself caused.

A second cause is the emergence of the Bric countries.

The harsher sanctions regime is a third cause of hunger.

There is a third cause that may be numerically very significant: definitional leap.

But, in Jimmy Cayne's outrageous bluster, Gladwell sees a third cause: overconfidence.

A third cause is a lack of physical fitness, resulting in weak core muscles of the trunk.