Sentence examples for murky cause from inspiring English sources

"CORFU-GATE", the semi-scandal involving a pair of British politicians who accepted the hospitality of a Russian billionaire on his yacht in August, looked set to embroil both main political parties in a murky cause célèbre with potentially explosive consequences.

Encephalitis lethargica, a plague that infected around a million people from 1915 to 1926, killing almost one-third of patients and locking many others into a catatonic state (the subject of Oliver Sachs' 1973 Awakenings), seemed a likely candidate given its murky causes and sporadic modern infections.

While the origins of the Hemingway House cats remains murky, the cause of their polydactyly is no longer a mystery.

Mr. Obama said that the plan would protect consumers, impose new restraints on financial behemoths and guard against the murky practices that caused the market crisis.

The two rowed just close enough to the giant reptiles, which began to thrash wildly in the murky swamp water, causing the man in the front of the boat to get hysterical and scream.

Stormwater pollution is the leading cause of murky, unhealthy rivers in Washington State.

Many of those of us born in the U.S. continue to have only a murky understanding of the cause of our physical differences, much less a willingness to identify with it a connection to thalidomide.

Patrick Smith, an airline pilot and aviation writer who spent years at a regional carrier, acknowledged that fatigue is a murky problem, with many causes and varying effects on different pilots, that is difficult to nail down as the main cause of an accident.

Murky water may be causing fish extinctions in Africa's Lake Victoria by making it impossible for female fish to recognize and mate with the brightly colored males.

But we're getting into that murky black-and-white, cause-and-effect, dead-rat-and-stick argument that muddies a lot of the conversation about depression.

ReprintsHackney's political history is so murky that identifying the root cause of the malaise is difficult.