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How To Use ascribe In A Sentence

• As we talked — about September 11, the war in Iraq, her time in the Senate, and (briefly, abortively) her husband — she showed little trace of the coldness that has long been ascribed to her. Take Two: Hillary's Choice
• We clearly need to replace the name ascribed to those whose ideology got us into this situation in the first place: the Neoconservatives. Making Sense of the News: Time To Update Some Terms
• Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are almost automatically credited to Churchill.
• Here Bentham clearly ascribes the felicific tendency to action tokens, and he equates an action's felicific tendency with the extent to which it promotes utility. Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy
• Although Time's editors were not in every instance necessarily responsible for the logodaedaly ascribed to them: the magazine served as the medium through which these coinages became known to millions. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
• Maxwell did not mention the banana theory but he dismissed the numerous theories and meanings ascribed to the name Sabah in published literature as "fanciful suggestions" because there was a lack of supporting evidence. Undefined
• At auction, cherished memories are trashed as treasured possessions are sifted and ascribed their price in the name of the bottom line.
• Stupidity is closer to deliverance than intellect which innovates," is a phrase ascribed to a Mohammedan saint, and do not modern theologians report with enthusiasm, the unlettered condition of Jesus? Cosmic Consciousness
• The genesis of abdominal pain or disordered bowel habit is generally ascribed to abnormal colonic motor function.
• Now the two tech icons are running neck and neck -- a reversal of fortune the bloggerati are inclined to ascribe to a combination of Steve Jobs 'genius and Microsoft's flatfootedness. Microsoft Slumps As Apple Trumps