Value conflict is the direct reason, which leads to the crime.

价值冲突是导致行为失范进而引发犯罪的直接原因。

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Capital shortage is the direct reason of the backwardness of western region.

资本形成不足是西部地区落后的直接原因。

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The molecular sieve effect of the kerogen's big molecule wet structure is a direct reason.

干酪根大分子结构的分子筛作用，是产生“蓝移”现象的直接原因；

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Another, less direct reason: Banks in Europe are still wary of lending, or at least that's the impression consumers are getting.

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The direct reason we vote now is to tell each other that we voted, and then to receive praise for complying with the social norm.

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The Founders had a horror of direct democracy for this very reason, and the system they devised was meant specifically to calm the passions, quiet the mob and channel its energies, and create a space for sober decision making by people the voters had chosen to make decisions for them.

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