But this idea that presidents are impotent in the face of decline is unsatisfying, even when the causes are diffuse and complex.
But still sticking to the business of how rather than what Hitchens thinks, the peculiar tone of self-righteousness, combined with a parochial point of view, even when the causes concern faraway, even exotic countries, is distinctive.
It's a device neatly matching Benjy's inability to connect cause and effect, even when the cause is himself.
Official narratives tend to be longer and more elaborate for men than for women, for example, even when the cause of death was similar.
But safety and battery experts are still questioning whether regulators can approve a permanent fix even when the cause of the fire remains unknown.
Hospital autopsies are sometimes performed even when the cause of death is known — to determine the effect of therapy, for example, or to see whether there were other undiagnosed diseases that might have contributed to a death.
Even when the cause seems just and the call to action is loudest, Mr. Gowin remains one of "the devil's party," as Blake said of Milton, because he believes that art, with all its ambiguity, and not propaganda has the most powerful and lasting effect on people.
Heck, they are dubious even when the cause is not so remote and has a demonstrable upside.
Given other evidence of international variation in cause-of-death coding 23, even when the cause is seemingly obvious 24, this may also hold true for alcohol-related causes.
They tend to focus on enabling conditions rather than strong causes, perhaps because the removal of an enabler within their control effectively prevents a bad outcome even when the cause is outside their control (Byrne, 2007; Egan, Frosch, & Hancock, 2008).
Even when the immediate causes have been specific and clear, and the health outcomes limited, as in the case of many natural hazards or chemical contaminants, their origins typically have had deeper and more far-reaching roots.
