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The jury concluded that negligent marketing and distribution of handguns by nine companies was a "proximate cause" of three recent shootings, despite the absence of proof that any particular company's product was involved in any of the shootings.
It is only a proximate factor in a vulnerable person with stronger causes at work.
Quite a variety of intracellular messengers have been proposed to provide the proximate signals in exercising muscles to stimulate activity-dependent gene regulation.
Suicide, rather than death in battle, is the proximate cause of every high-tech demise I can think of.
Foreseeability , unmentioned by the author but indispensable in the application of proximate cause , narrows but does not close the gap.