Sentence examples for cause ie from inspiring English sources

His thesis appears to hold that cancers that he cannot attribute to a cause must therefore be down to no cause – ie "bad luck".

The war must have a just cause (ie not imperial ambition, rivalry over resources, etc), and must be a last resort – all other means having been, literally, exhausted.

In theory the president may dismiss him "for cause" (ie, for a good reason), but that looks bad, as Nixon discovered.

Mel C has admitted that the band will reunite "for a big enough occasion or cause", ie Al Gore's Live Earth concert in the summer, the one manager Simon Fuller has been telling everyone they're doing all along.

These problems would best be dealt with (if at all) by attacking the cause: ie, by cutting carbon-dioxide emissions.Problems in the second category, however, can be approached in other ways.

His first step is to draw a basic distinction between activity and passivity: "I say that we are active when something takes place within us or out of us, of which we are the adequate cause, ie when from our nature something follows either within us or out of us, which can be clearly understood by that nature alone.

Almost a fifth of the total sample died from one of a variety of causes (ie, all-cause mortality=18.6%).

Deaths with known causes (ie, all deaths occurring in the calendar years 2000 2010) were categorised as natural (ie, disease-related) or unnatural deaths.

Figures 3C and 3D show the rates for traffic-related injury causes (ie, those on public roads) using work or school trips as the denominator (22 age group and jurisdiction strata).

Alternatively, while the artist may be creative at 40 or 50 years of age, this may be followed by a decline in productivity for a variety of causes: ie, depression, divorce, death of spouse, economic reverses, family strife, political refuge, etc, with a subsequent latter peak of creativeness and productivity at age 75 85 (Simonton 1989, 1990).

We suggest that the 50-μm categories along with the incorrect assumption that islets are spheres in the current algorithm causes IE measurement inaccuracy, because many research groups, in addition to us, have recognized that the shapes of islets are irregular [ 3, 27, 30, 32– 32].