Sentence examples for being a partial cause from inspiring English sources

Centrica defended the increase in any case and pointed to "anticompetitive practices in Europe" as being a partial cause behind the "unprecedented increase".

Some analysts have suggested that TV viewing via the Internet is a partial cause of the channel's declines.

In a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) in Washington on Monday the hawkish Republican senator John McCain said the "feckless foreign policy" of the Obama administration was a partial cause of events in Ukraine.

Recalling the dispute over Catalan autonomy that was a partial cause of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930's, Lt. Gen. José Mena Aguado, 63, said Friday that history appeared to be repeating itself as the nation debated Catalonia's recent requests for more self-government, and that the military was ready to act.

For example, it may be true that the Protestant Reformation is a partial cause of World War II, in virtue of some causal chain leading from the former to the latter.

The condition just sketched in the antecedent is fundamental: without it, a sentence p might very well have been an expression of a judgment j once (j was a partial cause of p), but no meaning is linked with p: for, if p is incomprehensible, namely it is not a partial cause of another judgment j′, then nothing can be said to be its meaning (§31).

While the limit of SIMS precision is a partial cause of this homogeneity, the mean Pb composition of Iwate magma is significantly different from depleted mantle (DMM 0.8570 and 2.072; Hart et al. 1992), they actually plot above the tie line between DMM and EMII (0.81088 and 2.0674; Workman et al. 2004) in a plot of Pb-isotopes normalized to 206Pb (Figure 3).

Hurricane Joan was a partial cause of Nicaraguans being, on average, worse-off than they were in the 1970s.

Icebergs calved off this glacier were a partial cause of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, as the oil tanker had changed course to avoid the icebergs.

Sorkin married Julia Bingham in 1996, but they divorced in 2005, with his workaholic habits and drug abuse reported to be a partial cause.

Copeland, who is the immediate past president of the Minority Contractors Association in Washington, DC, said the small number of minority firms receiving stimulus contracts is a partial cause of the Depression-like unemployment levels that now plague the African-American and Latino communities.