Examples of 'proximate cause' in a sentence

Meaning of "proximate cause"

This phrase is a legal term used to refer to the primary or direct reason or event that contributes to a specific consequence, harm, injury, or outcome. It denotes the immediate or closest link in a chain of events that can be legally attributed to the resulting effect, and is often significant in determining liability or responsibility in legal cases
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  • An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.

How to use "proximate cause" in a sentence

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Its proximate cause is a thing to be convinced about.
There will always be a proximate cause of death.
The proximate cause of death was a heart attack.
There are several competing theories of proximate cause.
Its proximate cause is the associated states.
And thus it was the proximate cause.
A proximate cause is immediately responsible for a problem.
That was the proximate cause of death.
You are allowing him to go forward with no proximate cause.
Its proximate cause is unwise attention to mental disquiet.
There is a difference between actual and proximate cause.
The proximate cause of these precipitous declines is poaching.
Sudden onset equals proximate cause.
The proximate cause of this cluster of crises was a loss of trust.
This is called the proximate cause.

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The proximate cause of the death of the victims was.
We need not reach the issue of proximate cause.
This is the proximate cause element.
There are two components which are actual cause and proximate cause.
That massive theft was the proximate cause of the embargo.
The coma must be irreversible with either a known or proximate cause.
There may be more than one proximate cause of an accident.
The proximate cause of the latest failure was rules governing agricultural trade.
There may be more than one proximate cause of an injury.
It is the proximate cause of septic shock and may function in autoimmune disease.
You were convicted on a proximate cause.
The proximate cause.
There may have been more than one proximate cause of an event.
Nor is there any proximate cause connecting me to the harm suffered.
Intestinal obstructions in multiple sites are the most common proximate cause of death.
And proximate cause.
The interesting question in this case is the proximate cause of the monopoly.
The major proximate cause of population decline appears to be predation on adult caribou.
There may be more than one proximate cause of an event.
The proximate cause of the famine was a reduction in supply with increase in demand.
That the departure was the proximate cause of the injury claimed.
A proximate cause is.
It is only the difference between a proximate cause and a more remote cause.
Of proximate cause.
The defective product must also be the proximate cause of the injury.
The proximate cause was famine resulting from a potato disease commonly known as late blight.
The pace and depth of a transition often refl ects its proximate cause.
Progress in agriculture was the proximate cause of progress in certain major sectors of industry.
Floating hostility and general defensiveness and irritability without any proximate cause.
Another potential actual and proximate cause of an automobile accident could be a defectively designed roadway.
It is for this reason that the insurance idea of proximate cause becomes so important.
The proximate cause of this crisis is the chemical attack on Douma last weekend.
There are two distinct aspects of causation which are actual cause and proximate cause.
Israeli restrictions on movement were a proximate cause of economic hardship among ordinary Palestinians.
The proximate cause of the horror in Gaza is the Israeli blockade.

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Cause he wins before he gets in the ring
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