"deciding cause" is an acceptable phrase in written English and can be used to refer to the primary factor that caused a particular event or outcome.
For example: "The deciding cause of the Great Depression was the collapse of the stock market."
At the federal surveillance center, Dr. Gambetti's assignment is to decide cause of death.
The election is decided — causing jubilation for some and disappointment for others — but real devastation continues, especially for those who have the fewest resources.
The first step is deciding which cause or set of causes is meaningful to you and your family and how many causes you can continue to support year after year.
To this end, we first explore how an instance of deciding weak cause can be reduced to an equivalent instance in which irrelevant variables in the (potential) weak cause and the causal model are removed, which extends previous work by Hopkins.
In each case, he said, it's our emotions that often override the pure cost-benefit analysis that goes into deciding which cause to support.
Much more extensive defenses of the practice of deciding the cause of action before resolving Article III jurisdiction have been offered by the courts of appeals.
We must make more effort to decide the cause of death.
A few decades of research has made it clear that most people are terrible choosers — they don't know what they want, and the prospect of deciding often causes not just jitters but something like anguish.
During sodium selenite induced toxicity, dehydration is inevitable, which may be the deciding factor causing the rise in serum BUN.
While charities have managed bounce back from disgrace, Miniutti urges donors to look beyond a A-list name when deciding which causes to support.
