Sentence examples for gradual causes from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, a vocal minority still insists that other, more gradual causes of dinosaur extinction, such as volcanic eruptions or the retreat of inland seas, are more likely.

Its onset is gradual, caused by an object that presses on the piriformis muscle in the buttocks, which is connected to the sciatic nerve, which runs down the leg.

Large lakes with deep water dominate the southern recesses of the Frasassi cave network, and a gradual slope causes water to flow towards the Sentino River.

The Mediterranean is projected as one of the most vulnerable areas to climatic and anthropogenic changes with decreasing rainfall trends and a continuous gradual warming causing a progressive decline of average stream flow.

But what if the tilting was a more gradual process, caused not by one mammoth impact but by two somewhat smaller nudges?

The disease destroys the neurons that control muscle movement, causing gradual paralysis and eventually killing about half of patients within 3 years of diagnosis.

A.L.S., which attacks the nerves that control muscles, causes gradual paralysis.

The condition causes gradual deterioration of the light-detecting cells (photoreceptors) in the retina, which can lead to blindness.

The temperature growth (over ~500 K) causes gradual bond ruining followed by extrusion of interwall intercalate.

Carbon dioxide is a powerful greenhouse gas, whose massive presence in the atmosphere causes gradual global warming.

A genetic deficiency due to mutations in the gene encoding for PNP causes gradual decrease in T-cell immunity.