"selected cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a specific reason or factor that has been chosen or identified as relevant to a situation. Example: The team studied the data and identified the selected cause of the decrease in sales to be the change in consumer preferences.
Others route money to a selected cause -- an elementary or secondary school, in the case of Schoolpop.com or Box Tops for Education, sponsored by General Mills.
Most commonly, this involves the donation of financial resources: When consumers buy a product, the brand gives a percentage of the profits to a selected cause.
When you search the Internet using GoodSearch, they will donate about a penny to your selected cause for each search you conduct.
For instance, Olympic athletes should be rewarded with the opportunity to shine a portion of their spotlight, whether they win or not, on their selected cause, project or organization and on their choice of artists and or musicians of their nation.
The latest reports additionally offer tabulated numbers of death and selected cause patterns by district municipality (55).
We observed an inverse gradient of all-cause and selected cause specific mortality across floors among residents of high-rise buildings in Switzerland with the exception of suicide by jumping.
Figure 1: Proportions for selected causes of death over time, from the Global Burden of Disease Study GBDD).
Le Golf National course in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines just outside Paris, has been selected, causing some Gallic excitement.
Giving their time to just a few selected causes allows them to maximise the benefit they can offer.
Quantitative risk assessment of the effects of climate change on selected causes of death, 2030s and 2050s.
In a 2014 study, the WHO looked at the effects of climate change on selected causes of deaths, and concluded that approximately 250,000 additional deaths would be due to climate change every year between 2030 and 2050.
