These two questions provide a theory for the ultimate cause of behavior.
In this analogy, there is no first or ultimate cause for anything that occurs.
This is not to say that he's less committed to the ultimate cause.
Perhaps a plea bargain would not serve his ultimate cause.
These, he said, are the ultimate cause of suffering in Iraq.
What was the ultimate cause of the financial crisis?
I stay because the ultimate cause of the Order is a moral one.
Who was the evil influence behind them, and the ultimate cause of all this misery?
From what I learned in school, population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.
The ultimate causes have to do with the whole situation.