External causes play their part in determining the politics of the region, but a part only.

ECONOMIST: The Middle East

Deaths from circulatory system diseases and cancer actually decreased mildly, as did overall deaths from external causes (by a very respectable 5%).

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Encouragingly, external causes of mortality have continued to decline even faster than other causes: suicide, murder, and alcohol poisonings are down by 5%, 10%, and 18% respectively.

FORBES: Russia's Demographics Continue to Rapidly Improve

The problem occurs when external force causes a baby's head to take on an abnormal shape.

BBC: Molly Askam

But his realisation that the only way to drive up standards is through allowing schools to develop a strong, individual sense of purpose and ethos, galvanised by good leadership and the drive of external partners, causes grave offence.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

External hacking was one of the causes less than 10% of the time.

FORBES: JargonSpy

So we'll be conducting both the internal activity as well as an external review immediately to ascertain the causes and circumstances under which this tragedy occurred.

CNN: O'Keefe: 'A tragic day for the NASA family'

At issue is a technical flaw in the new model of the popular iPhone that causes the cell phone's signal to fade when it is gripped around the device's external antenna.

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