"And that I unwittingly served as the reason for it.
I heard you were fired and that I unwittingly served as the reason for it".
Bebel, along with the brigadeiros(Brazilian chocolates) which were served were enough reason for me to brave the rain all day.
If Ms Suu Kyi's group reaches an accommodation with the government, it could serve as a reason for Western nations to lift political and economic embargoes on the country which have hindered development and pushed it into dependence on neighbouring China.
It was because Stalin, despite the self-evident facts, thought that the war had not yet started, that this was only a provocative action on the part of several undisciplined sections of the German army, and that our reaction might serve as a reason for the Germans to begin the war.
Thus, the student's belief about the length serves as a reason for her belief about the period.
According to the reasons account, a conscious state can serve as a reason for belief or action, even if the thinker is not conscious of the state.
An itch can serve as a reason for scratching, even if there is no further conscious state (distinct from the itch) that constitutes an awareness of the itch.
It is in the nature of a formal rule that it has to be followed even when doing so might not serve the background reason for the rule.
In this respect, the arousing of emotions might even count as a kind of salience argument for the beliefs so produced (e.g., anger at particular outrageous events can serve as a reason for believing that a politician should be impeached).
