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The Fraser Inquiry will ascribe blame for technical mishaps and bureaucratic incompetence, but history will judge all that mere chaff.
Researchers ascribe this strange state of affairs to dark energy, an entity that's the flip side of gravity.
Setting the outlaw apart and marking him as truly heroic, oral traditions in particular ascribe his continued success to supernatural protection.
We would ascribe the brow ridge's extra robustness in gorillas to causes other than eye protection.
I don't want to ascribe human reactions to my dog, because that spoils the joy of seeing things from a dog perspective.
Biology produces the very heroism my friend would ascribe to false consciousness.
It's hard to ascribe the more extreme hatred directed toward her as anything besides, at best, bitterness, and at worst something much more icky.
When mesmeric patients awake spontaneously, they continually ascribe their waking to their first sensation, or even to something imagined.
Others ascribe continued support to widespread ignorance of the addictive mentality.
We only come to grief once, when I ascribe the absence of his body hair to regular wax treatments.
Many people in the department ascribe his odd behaviour to drunkenness and encroaching senility.
Ex-radicals usually ascribe their evolution to the inevitable giving way of idealistic youth to responsible maturity.
Thus, for me, semiotics suggested that you could not ascribe universal values to literary texts.
Around the world, people ascribe god-like attributes to lightning, rivers or even old buildings.
As a result, we not only treat these animals in ridiculous ways, but ascribe rights to them modelled on our own.
It would be oversimplistic to ascribe the decline of armour solely to the invention of gunpowder and the portable personal weapon.
Appealing to both forces, we ascribe interruption to perceptions and continuance to objects.
We ascribe to the philosophy that if she's not shrieking in pain, she's fine.
Normally I am very careful before I ascribe such sinister motives to a government agency.
It would be incorrect to ascribe the victories of our gymnasts to me, personally.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was published anonymously, 4to, 1677, and all the best critics with one accord ascribe it to Mrs. behn.
To ascribe the origination of order to law is a manifest evasion of the real problem.
I therefore ascribe this property to man as a property by means of which I cognise him.
We might just as well ascribe to Darwin the intention of disowning man because he set forth man's natural descent.
Most authorities on gynecology either make no reference whatever to the drug or ascribe little or no value to it.
To the Government and the English they ascribe these wrongs, and nourish against both an indiscriminating and eternal animosity.
For my part, I should be inclined to ascribe to penetration rather than to presumption the notion of a contagium animatum.
Our sufficiency is of God, not of ourselves, and to Him we ascribe all honor and glory.
Dr. Pereira and others ascribe to Sulphur a resolvent and liquefacient action.
According to the views we have mentioned, we must ascribe life to a gas, that is, to an aeriform body.
Some such type of skin as this, in default of better evidence, we may ascribe to the allosaurus.
To ascribe the good lives of such persons to the power of nature would be pelagianism.
The heresiarch did not pretend to have written it himself, nor did he ascribe it to any other person.
That is, theoretically we may ascribe them to God, but practically we dissociate Him from them.
The covetousness or the malignity which saddens me when I ascribe it to society, is my own.
The mitigation of that horror they condemn, resent, and often ascribe to the devil.
I would not ascribe to nature what is merely the outcome of my own moral views.
Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.
They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand another to corruptions and dialects.
By Character I mean that in virtue of which we ascribe certain qualities to the agents.
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