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- adjective having
multiple causes
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Examples
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History tells us that the further one studies a major historical event -- World War II, the Great Depression, the fall of the Roman Empire -- the more multicausal these events become; the "event" is less a single cause than a systemic event.
Robert Teitelman: The Causes of Systemic Disasters Robert Teitelman 2012
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It seems obviously true that the crisis was multicausal and that the complicity, or rather involvement, was widespread and long term; this, in fact, is one of the themes of All the Devils are Here.
Robert Teitelman: A Few Lessons From the Crisis Robert Teitelman 2010
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Likewise, epidemics have causes that are "complex, multicausal and determined more powerfully by interacting forces in the environment."
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DK: A multicausal analysis needs to look at multiple factors of class, race, gender, and specific social environments in which shootings take place.
Jackson Katz: Conversation with Philosopher on School Shootings 2008
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You argue for a multicausal explanation of the phenomenon of school shootings.
Jackson Katz: Conversation with Philosopher on School Shootings 2008
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The fact is that in a multicausal system like the climate, you can NOT simply assert gradualism to say that the causes that were primary a century ago are still the causes that are primary now – even if the same overall set of potential causes are still the operative potential causes.
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I also specifically discuss the need for a multicausal analysis in the Introduction (p. 9), in the Foreword to the German edition, and in the concluding chapter (p. 416).
'Hitler's Willing Executioners': An Exchange Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah 1997
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As he states in his letter, he discusses the need for a multicausal analysis in the introduction to the German version of his book.
'Hitler's Willing Executioners': An Exchange Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah 1997
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I concur fully with Joffe that any explanation of the Holocaust must be multicausal.
'Hitler's Willing Executioners': An Exchange Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah 1997
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Given the multicausal linkages, this needs to be done at all levels of the economy and in almost all spheres of life in both industrialized and developing countries.
1. Using indigenous knowledge in agricultural development. 1992
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