Sentence examples for that first causes from inspiring English sources

Both narratively and visually, 'Brokeback Mountain' is a tragedy about the specifically gay phenomenon of the 'closet' — about the disastrous emotional and moral consequences of erotic self-repression and of the social intolerance that first causes and then exacerbates it.

The episode revives an issue that first caused controversy more than 30 years ago and still sharply divides public opinion.

Among the things that first caused me to swipe right were your luxurious locks, your auburn mane that you tossed about in that devil-­may­-care-­but­-he-­probably-­does-­not style in your profile picture.

He believes the latest setback to his shoulder, a problem that first caused him to go on the disabled list in July, is just a pause to his season, not an ending.

Maybe it was his performance in "Dog Day Afternoon" in 1975 that first caused you to register the name, or "Tootsie" in 1982, or the recurring role in "Everybody Loves Raymond" early in this century.

Finally, Asher's approach will put off those who think that second causes leave no place for God's providence.

They demonstrate that policy uncertainty and weaker economic growth are related, not that the first causes the second.

Philo dismisses the suggestion that the first cause is either perfectly good or perfectly malevolent on the ground that "mixed phenomena" can never prove either of the unmixed principles as the first cause.

But if this is right, and the hypothesis that the first cause (or causes) of the universe is neither good nor evil is more probable than the hypothesis that the first cause is perfectly good, then the probability of the latter must be less than one half.

This conception of simultaneous contingent alternatives is part of an argument that the first cause does not act necessarily.

The relationship between cause and effect is treated as real but not temporal, so that the first cause is not a first cause in time but a sustaining cause.