He makes good sense when defining the basic causes of the failure.

Of course, it is not necessarily the case that every economic crisis must have the same basic causes.

The shift in treatment has grown from a new understanding of the condition's basic cause.

Each nation tried to sell more than it bought, and this was the basic cause of every war in modern times.

But the basic cause, he suggested, involves economics rather than biology.

But the basic cause behind all these problems is resource scarcity.

The civil war has regional, religious, and economic dimensions, but its basic cause is political.

They still cannot figure out the basic cause of the trouble and fear a recurrence.

Here too the Commission misunderstands our basic cause for concern.

All the parties appeared to agree on the basic causes of the budget gap.