There is a tendency in some foreign policy circles to believe that you don't have to think about causal chains of events.

I don't see any causal chain to that body in space.

And, by the same token, the world will come to be filled with the links in this causal chain.

If what I did started a causal chain that resulted in your not being born.

I think one has to be prepared to accept long causal chains.

He also talks in his sleep and murmurs things like "break the causal chain."

The links in the causal chain are much more complex.

Since a company's sales clearly change over time, there must be something further back up the causal chain that makes this happen.

The "butterfly effect" is one example of a causal chain.

The court determined, accordingly, that the causal chain was complete.