He noted Mr. Malik's incessant smoking of cigars and cigarettes was a more likely cause.
Later, it turned out that grand jury subpoenas were a far more likely cause.
It may be that environmental contamination, acting on specific types of genes, is the more likely cause of autism.
A more likely cause, Dr. Tapley said, would be a large meteor burning up as it entered the atmosphere.
"The loss of insulation at liftoff is a much more likely cause than debris or meteor showers".
Regretfully, that is a far more likely cause of death or disfigurement than some inexplicable form of radio-induced glioma.
American officers say that the faster and more manoeuvrable Chinese jets were the more likely cause of the collision.
But some researchers think pesticides are a long shot — many people spend their lives near cotton fields — and say genetics is a more likely cause of pancreatic cancer.
He blamed Ukrainian authorities and the CIA, but other analysts suggested infighting or falling out with his Russian handlers was a more likely cause.
Meadows said medical evidence suggested it was unlikely the impact from the Taser had caused Begley's cardiac arrest, with the restraint that followed the more likely cause.
Yudkin led a diminishing band of dissenters who believed that sugar, not fat, was the more likely cause of maladies such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
