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contributing factor

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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. Dave Barry

The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror. David Foster Wallace

My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling. Carre Otis

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America. Jim Capaldi

There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign. William Saroyan

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