How to Use "proximate" with Example Sentences

1. It was this shortage that lit the fuse of more proximate causes in the financial crisis .
2. So he bears ultimate and proximate responsibility for the fact that yahoo is , frankly , a bit of a mess .
3. The proximate reason is because foreign exchange rates have not been determined in a free market .
4. Neither your home nor your office is going to get any more proximate by your constant moaning .
5. A fundamental ( not proximate ) cause of our economic plight is the imbalance in current accounts in particular between the us and china during the past decade .