They demonstrate that policy uncertainty and weaker economic growth are related, not that the first causes the second.
Silver said that if I was looking for first causes in the matter that concerned me I had come to the right place.
This gave rise to the first causes of the crisis: the originate-and-distribute model of securitisation and the extensive use of leverage.
Perhaps we should have devoted some space to cities themselves, as kinds of first causes or prime movers, the places where so many whos make so many thats.
Again, Comte charged that no genuine explanations result; questions concerning ultimate reality, first causes, or absolute beginnings are thus declared to be absolutely unanswerable.
As the ancient philosophers who first formulated it understood, it was a way of pointing to the mystery of first causes – of what created the universe, and how that entity might have come into being.
Both narratively and visually, 'Brokeback Mountain' is a tragedy about the specifically gay phenomenon of the 'closet' — about the disastrous emotional and moral consequences of erotic self-repression and of the social intolerance that first causes and then exacerbates it.
Toward the beginning of "Quicksilver" one character urges Waterhouse to leave his house of cards behind and return to Europe, where controversies rage and an intellectual revolution is under way: "Return to the core, look at first causes".
Most commonly, a collision first causes a tightly bound inner-shell electron to be ejected from the atom; a loosely bound outer-shell electron then falls into the inner shell to fill the vacancy.
A patient with a history of hyperthyroidism who develops a slow heart rate might have de Quervain's thyroiditis, a disease in which inflammation of the thyroid first causes symptoms related to too much thyroid hormone, but ultimately leads to the destruction of the thyroid gland.
(He does not assign first causes to general metaphysics, however: the study of first causes belongs to natural theology, a branch of special metaphysics).
