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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as much cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the reasons or motivations for two different actions or situations, often implying equality in the level of justification.
Example: "She had as much cause to be upset as he did, given the circumstances they both faced."
Alternatives: "equal reason" or "similar justification".
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In a rare moment of calm between crises over Ebola and Islamic State, a group of congressmen gathered on Capitol Hill to discuss something few Americans have had as much cause to contemplate: the outcome of next Tuesday's midterm elections.
Looking at all this in hindsight, we never had as much cause to love or hate HRT as our behavior during any interval suggested.
But we won't have gotten the sector right until a bright young Harvard grad has as much cause to brag about a job in the trucking industry as a job on Wall Street.
The vision of a totalitarian apocalypse based on conspiracist scapegoating would be a depressing way to end this discussion, so we borrow a theme from Eli Sagan, who despite his awareness of the link between totalitarianism and scapegoating, suggests, "There is as much cause for hope as for despair".
However, Calderwood had just as much cause to be grateful to his keeper, Lee Camp.
Each wicket was not as much cause for celebration as a source of relief.
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"I think that the Asian financial crisis and the Mexican crisis were as much caused by the industrial nations' financial institutions," said Mr. Rubin, who now heads one of those institutions, Citigroup.
Double space the copy you send to an editor so they can make notes without having to mark it up quite as much, causing confusion.
This in turn allows offenders to build up belief that the guardian does not occupy Location 1 as much, causing crime to return to Location 1.
Economic distress caused by swelling youth populations, joblessness, rising prices and drought, he said, had done as much to cause the uprisings as political oppression.
The W.U.S.A. sometimes seemed as much a cause as a business venture, and in that regard, too, the new league has learned a lesson.
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