remote cause

For it's remote causes we must go a little back.

His mind jumped to the fantastic possibility of some remote cause.

Remote cause is not a cause because it is not unconditional.

The remote cause of the riot was the strained relationship between the Northern and Southern political leaders over the issue of self-government in 1956.

Felicity derives from a divine cause or originally from God as a primal and remote cause.

I hope one remote cause of its firing, may have been my consciousness that if I had known his errand, I should have given him more encouragement.

Flowing with complicated thoughts, he posted the request to Astral as an excuse to duel with Nekoyashiki, who is the remote cause of the failure that happened three years ago.

The causes that he dwelt upon were the evident and conjunct causes, or, in other words, the morbid phenomena; the remote causes he thought it vain to seek after.

At first convinced that Fancy is cheating on him, Luis quickly becomes concerned when Sheridan and Pretty's battle for control of the remote causes Fancy to run into walls, bark like a dog, and, eventually, collapse and stop breathing.

We must include the remote causes and the causes close to home here: origin and transit, structural poverty and irresponsible encouragements to come here, which translate into the languages of all poor countries as the dangerous phrase ‘sooner or later there will be papers for everybody’.

Will operates as a free agent when considered alone, but when regarded in relation to the remote cause, it acts by necessity; or, will operates in freedom, both per se and in regard to the provoking cause, but is bound if analyzed with reference to the divine omniscience.

It is even believed that it suspension was one of the remote causes of the February general strike in Cameroon against rising food prices, the cost of fuel and constitutional amendment which left over one hundred people dead (40 in official estimates) and state and private property worth millions of dollars damaged.

"The immediate cause of this terrible affair was the assemblage of this Convention; the remote cause was the bitter and antagonistic feeling which has been growing in this community since the advent of the present Mayor, who, in the organization of his police force, selected many desperate men, and some of them known murderers.

That is not to say, of course, that comet trails and aurorae are two aspects of the same phenomenon, or even that they are closely related phenomena, but it does suggest that the remote cause of both lies within the subatomic realm and could only be known after our understanding of this realm was enlarged.