He was talking about geopolitical cause-and-effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the Internet Community Promotes Ron Paul] Reference

So I think that that ` s a cause-and-effect scenario.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2008] Reference

Care to address the 'cause-and-effect' issue that you raised?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New McCain Ad: "Life In The Spotlight Must Be Grand"] Reference

And he also touched on the subject of karma, cause-and-effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dalai Lama & Costco: When Ultimate Truth met Relative Truth...] Reference

Every action, and non-action, has a cause-and-effect built into it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited] Reference

Besides, cause-and-effect is a much more efficient manager than me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acceptance] Reference

The cause-and-effect relationship is firmer than established in 1964.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vp Remarks On Global Climate Change] Reference

HORNER: Well, the cause-and-effect relationship of CO-2 and temperatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 2, 2007] Reference

There is no clear cause-and-effect progression between programme components.    From Wordnik.com.  [2.1) Project chronology] Reference

Those cause-and-effect relationships are tough to grok, even for the knowledgeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joel Makower: WITTs, YOYOs, and Why Americans Don't Go Green] Reference

With problems with proven solutions, the cause-and-effect relationships are well known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 1] Reference

It would be hard to demonstrate a cause-and-effect relationship in any individual case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Protest draws Death Threats - Will Shame Alone Deter?] Reference

Many of these are "associations" that may or may not have a cause-and-effect relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Neurobics' and Other Brain Boosters] Reference

The authors said more research is needed to clarify if there's a cause-and-effect relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists Expect C-Section Rate To Keep Rising] Reference

It assumes cause-and-effect, and distracts us from the facts: Osama bin Laden is still at large.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Myers: Where Is the Republican Marketplace of Ideas?] Reference

I thought his comment was not useful, but I don't think there is a cause-and-effect relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2003] Reference

But this cause-and-effect thing was something that people have been struggling with for some time.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2005] Reference

We make fun of other outlets that read cause-and-effect into poll numbers without any evidence to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Approval Of Congress Drops To Record Low] Reference

Yet this simple cause-and-effect analysis is missing or buried in the government reports on the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Fiderer: Katrina Whitewash: Michael Chertoff Remains Incriminated by the Smoking Gun Buried in Plain Sight] Reference

Treme is less focused on cause-and-effect than The Wire, which was a grand, sprawling, Dostoyevskian story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treme : A Complex, Enthralling New Drama] Reference

This sequence would happen five, ten, or twenty times, and the patients realized a cause-and-effect relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The trouble with sweeteners, of particular concern for Diabetics] Reference

Perhaps not cause-and-effect, though I suspect so, but after FDR raised top tax rates the economy grew dramatically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Johnson: Attacking Deficits] Reference

It may precede a settlement between Israelis and Palestinians, but I don't think it's a cause-and-effect relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2002] Reference

The last word in the sentence, "you," is the most important one, and a cause-and-effect thinker would likely put it first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kelly Nuxoll: Palin's Sentences Lack Transparency And Accountability] Reference

If you'd like to make the argument that there's no such thing as cause-and-effect, then it doesn't matter who gets elected.    From Wordnik.com.  [New McCain Ad: "Life In The Spotlight Must Be Grand"] Reference

Unlike the cause-and-effect of our everyday physical world, subatomic particles defy common sense and behave in wacky ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science, Spirituality, and Some Mismatched Socks] Reference

This type of study can't show cause-and-effect, so it can't prove that having fast-food nearby leads to a poorer-quality diet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast-food nearby: Convenience, but at what cost?] Reference

As Shchekochikhin sees it, Russia is spiraling into the same cause-and-effect scenario it experienced in the bloody early '90s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back To The Future] Reference

It has been argued that "science" convincingly shows a cause-and-effect relationship between the law and the reduction in fatalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morris E. Chafetz: The 21-Year-Old Drinking Age: I Voted for It; It Doesn't Work] Reference

Mechanistic thinking is closely allied with the cause-and-effect mode of perception that tends to dominate conventional medical thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution?] Reference

Since children get vaccinations and children become autistic, there may be a temporal relationship, but it is not a cause-and-effect one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vaccinations: Still Amazing After All These Years] Reference

But with regard to tanning beds, they're saying, "Look, there is really a definite sort of cause-and-effect sort of relationship here now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2009] Reference

This study was not designed to show cause-and-effect, so it can't prove that having many fast-food restaurants nearby actually raised the risk of stroke.    From Wordnik.com.  [When fast-food's nearby, stroke risk is high] Reference

That producing and caring for a child is outside the parameters of the "reasonable," consequence-driven, cause-and-effect logic in which we live the rest of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melissa Lafsky: In Defense of Having Children] Reference

It couldn't be a coincidence that the Vision and the cycle's end came together -- but it also couldn't be the cause-and-effect relationship Hovan seemed to think.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference