The phrase "circumstantial events" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the particular sequence of events that led to a particular outcome. For example, "The circumstantial events that led to his success were unlikely but remarkable."
I lived with the nagging fear that any little mistake, any circumstantial event that found me in the wrong place at the wrong time, could potentially end with the deportation of my parents and I and everything we had worked so hard for as a family would be taken away from us.
The lawyers said Qaeda terrorists captured by the United States over the last year would give testimony that "entirely exculpates Moussaoui from any involvement in or knowledge of the events of Sept. 11 -- stated otherwise, the government's circumstantial case is decimated".
As events later showed, Weaver had presented a well-reasoned, if only circumstantial, case; these circumstantial elements were confirmed by evidence found after investigators gained access to Rajneeshpuram several months later.
"It may be a circumstantial case and, for all I know, not a substantial circumstantial case".
Though their evidence is circumstantial, a confluence of events and witness testimony will help them build a persuasive case.
The lower court's reasoning ran to nearly 500 pages, but it presented only a circumstantial account of the events leading to Ms. Kercher's murder, and did not ascribe a motive to her attackers.
"The case was a circumstantial-evidence case.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that critical events underlying breast cancer risk, as well as the therapeutic action of poly(ADP) ribose polymerase inhibitors on BRCA-linked cancers, are played out at sites of DNA polymerase stalling [ 8- 10].
Naftalis, his lawyer, said that the evidence was circumstantial, based on the timing of events; his call to Rajaratnam on the day of the Buffett deal was merely a poorly timed check-in about a soured investment.
