Sentence examples for occasional cause from inspiring English sources

Acetylcholine release by nerve impulses can be blocked by botulinum toxin, a very potent chemical that is produced in food contaminated by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum and is an occasional cause of severe food poisoning (botulism).

She tells of the existential threat felt by the barren ("I worried I was doomed to a depthless life") and of the depression, which is both occasional cause and predictable effect of infertility: "Which comes first: the down-in-the-dumps chicken or its empty nest?" She characterises as "a naive gamble" her decision to return three embryos at a time to her womb.

There is an ambiguity in Malebranche's use of the phrase "occasional cause".

Instead the action of external objects on the sense organs brings about changes in the body and these changes serve as the merely occasional cause of the production of sensations in the mind.

Though the term "occasional cause" has been suggested as originating with the French philosopher Louis de la Forge (Carraud 2002, 347), the first philosophers to explicitly expound the position were the Islamic occasionalists.

For the grace of Jesus Christ, the occasional cause if Jesus Christ, in his human nature, and the general volition is that grace be given to human beings if and only if Jesus Christ, in his human nature, asks that it be given.

Species of Salmonella that cause typhoid and paratyphoid remain endemic scourges in tropical countries and, together with Shigella, are occasional causes of epidemics in institutions, especially among the elderly.

For Hume, Malebranche's occasional causes are the only causes.

When creatures appear to be efficient causes, they are really only occasional causes.

Occasional "causes" thus regularly precede their "effects" but are not truly responsible for producing them.

Creatures are therefore merely the occasional causes of pleasing effects in us, and our love of creatures is inferior and secondary to our love of God.