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cause
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cause
1. 
a. a ground for legal action; matter giving rise to a lawsuit
b. the lawsuit itself
2. (in the philosophy of Aristotle) any of four requirements for a thing's coming to be, namely material (material cause), its nature (formal cause), an agent (efficient cause), and a purpose (final cause)


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But, as multiple studies have shown, the sanctions proved to be a necessary cause of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, most of them children under the age of five--the most innocent of civilians.
Although HPV is a necessary cause of cervical cancer, it is not a sufficient cause.
b) For example, falling from the 27th floor onto the pavement is not a necessary cause for breaking the skull because many other processes can lead to this effect; however, it can be seen as a sufficient cause.
 
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