In law, the proximate, not the remote cause is regarded.

法律只究近因，不问远因。

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This paper presented 20 cases of atrial fibrillation with atrio-ventricular junctional escape beat ( AVJEB ) and dealt with it's cause, remote cause and prognosis.

报告20例心房纤颤伴交界性逸搏，并讨论了其病因、诱因和预后。

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In an application, a nickname brings back data from a remote table, view, or date set. However, the following conditions will cause such an application to fail.

在应用程序中，别名可以从远程表、视图或数据集中取回数据。

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We have to resist excessive commitment to this idea of it being a center, but it is at least not a center which somehow stands outside of itself and is a center only in the sense that it is some remote, hidden, impersonal, distant cause.

我们必须反对对这个观点过多的承诺,这个人为它是中心的观点，但它至少不是一个,以某种方式处于自身之外的中心，而只在某种意义上是中心,比如说，它有些偏僻，隐蔽，客观，遥远。

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Who would have thought that a little remote would cause so much media attention but we can tell you that once you play with the Logitech 1000, it is easy to understand why.

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Hackers could bring down power plants, cause remote explosions, shut down utilities, cut off security systems, hack into important infrastructure, and the list goes on.

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All I was noting is that they are possible, and if the FDA continues to be concerned about a remote possibility that the Arena drug could cause cause cancer in women years down the road, it can always order up a giant new study.

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