Bell has a case to make, but at times the academic need to argue causes him to force his argument.
And shale gas needs to be extracted by a process known as "fracking", which some argue causes severe environmental damage.
This outlook, the team argues, causes students to respond to challenges by trying harder and has a greater impact on Asian-Americans' academic achievement than does cognitive ability or socioeconomic status.
Again, if counter-arguing causes your parent to become angry, drop the topic and consider coming back to it at a later date.
This political system, he argues, "caused the degeneration of the national character of the Chinese people".
Though it would be foolish to argue cause and effect, the temptation is to imagine that brevity encourages assent.
Worries about exchange rates, he argues, cause central banks to veer off course.How worrying all this is depends on its scale.
One by one, the jurors stood on the stoop at 46th Street and Third Avenue where Rosa Citron, a witness for the prosecution, said she watched Mr. Gray speed through a red light, which, prosecutors argued, caused the crash.
The Mumbai police suffer from a chronic lack of intelligence about the city's Muslim community, she argues, caused by its lack of knowledge of Urdu, lack of Muslim recruits and biased attitude.
That, in turn, slows down the jet stream, they argue, causing it to become more "wavy" and allowing colder air to penetrate farther south.
