Sentence examples for seek causes from inspiring English sources

In a detective story shown on PBS's "Nova" series, engineers at computer screens seek causes for the collapse of the Twin Towers in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, with emphasis on the buildings' unusual design, which moved their supporting columns from the center to the exterior walls.

First, there is what he called the theological stage, in which events are explained by reference to supernatural beings; next, there is the metaphysical stage, in which more abstract unseen forces are invoked; finally, in the positivistic stage, men seek causes in a scientific and practical manner.

Indeed, as Tolstoy put it, "The need to seek causes has been put into the soul of man".

For recommendations to be targeted towards the meso- and macro-levels of the organisation, the model used for investigation needs to seek causes at the level of organisational interactions and relationships.

Botto LD, Lin AE, Riehle-Colarusso T, Malik S, Correa A. Seeking causes: Classifying and evaluating congenital heart defects in etiologic studies.

"In the past few years here, there is a climate of looking in other directions, of seeking causes, even if they are not direct causes".

Investigators are sifting through records seeking causes of the disaster, which has raised new questions about how charter schools are regulated.

The chairman and managing director of an engineering safety supplies company, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, he sought causes to help with an enthusiasm others devoted to making fortunes.

External history of science seeks causes of scientific change in social, political, religious and other developments of science.

But Spring shies away from laying blame, passing judgment, seeking causes, or reading between the lines.

Siddhartha Gautama (the historical person now known by his title, the Buddha) said that suffering was caused by tanha which is usually translated as "desire," but which could easily be alternatively translated as "seeking". Seeking causes suffering.