Ascribe

"Ascribe" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Some scholars ascribe the settlement of America to social unrest in Western Europe.

We ascribe his success to hard work.

I think we all remain confident that we eventually will be able to identify this germ, but it is too preliminary to ascribe the disease to any particular agent in this point in time.

Most stereotypes ascribe negative characteristics to a group.

What value should I ascribe to that statement?

However, the passage on the money-changers contains remarkably little of what people ascribe to it today. No context or rationale is provided.

One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.

Thus the Aſſe having a peculiar mark of a croſſe made by a black liſt down his back, and another athwart, or at right angles down his ſhoulders; common opinion aſcribes this figure unto a peculiar ſignation; ſince that beaſt had the honour to bear our Saviour on his back.

Difficult running was ascribed by the driver to inferior coal, alleged to be Polish.

SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter. Its first act upon its arrival — or, depending on the degree of intelligent agency you ascribed to it, the first side-effect of its arrival — was the neutralisation of the Foundation.

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It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.

[…]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.

A survey of the literature reveals that many who have commented on the signaling of animals ascribe to the view that all of their communicative signals are manifestations of emotion or affect.

If we take a holistic view of human beings, we ascribe to the idea that humans are multidimensional and that they are greater than the sum of their parts – for example, their physical, psychological and spiritual aspects.

There are plenty of people who ascribe to the idea that, if they only have a short time on this earth, they want to be “used up” when it's their time to go.

And the truth is, I don't ascribe to the belief that God is more successful at drawing women to him than men.

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