Sentence examples for tangle of causes from inspiring English sources

Landowners would have to wait perhaps 20 years to harvest the trees, during which time squatters or accidental fires could easily wipe out their investment.Deforestation in Indonesia which last year caught the world's attention by producing a series of catastrophic smogs—has a similar tangle of causes.

Sorting out such tangles of cause and effect in the world of macroeconomics is a messy business.

Nooteboom's larger message is that a country, like history itself, is impossible to pin down, "a permanently tangled web of cause, coincidence, and intention".

The basic scholarship system, however, has not changed in decades, a disparity that has caused a tangle of problems.

A radical piece of legislation, the act helped to unravel what had previously been a tangle of public and private laws causing confusion across a wide spectrum of crucial children's issues: protection, care, family support, adoption and fostering.

The root causes — an impenetrable tangle of derivative securities, heedless lending and binge corporate buyouts — are too vast and uncharted to examine for long.

In the mid 1960s, marriage became an object of both racial and economic policy when Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then assistant secretary of labor to Lyndon Johnson, argued that black poverty was caused by "a tangle of pathology" at the center of which was low marriage rates.

But no single cause could account for the tangle of tics and urges that make up Freddie's personality.

Last week, I reported that The Pirate Bay's alleged power failure seemed to be caused by a much more complicated tangle of political happenings.

No, none of those were cause for concern as 21 choristers -- 11 women and 10 men -- navigated a tangle of thorny rhythms and lush dissonances.

Impaired insulin transduction aggravates features of Alzheimer's disease including formation of neurofibrillary tangle caused by the decreasing brain glucose level and the increase of amyloid β aggregation [ 104, 106, 118, 120– 120].