How To Use Ascribe In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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At auction, cherished memories are trashed as treasured possessions are sifted and ascribed their price in the name of the bottom line.
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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
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The genesis of abdominal pain or disordered bowel habit is generally ascribed to abnormal colonic motor function.
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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
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Gladly would I grace my tale with decent horror, and therefore I do beseech the "gentle reader" to believe, that if all the _succedanea_ to this mysterious narrative are not in strict keeping, he will ascribe it only to the disgraceful innovations of modern degeneracy upon the sober and dignified habits of our ancestors.
Humorous Ghost Stories
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In those northern countries, the people are therefore generally dull, heavy, and many witches, which (as I have before quoted) Saxo Grammaticus, Olaus, Baptista Porta ascribe to melancholy.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Not a single defendant at the1692 Salem Witch Trials was burned at the stake...19 were hanged while a 20th, a man who refused to enter a plea, was crushed to death with heavy stones medical historians have ascribed the bizarre behavior exhibited there to various causes, such as an outbreak of encephalitis or rye bread contaminated by the hallucinogenic known as ergot!
Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids!
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It is entirely to be ascribed to the supplanting, _in the national subsistence, of a large part of home produce by an equally large part of foreign produce_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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But both terms ascribe a kind of grandeur to the Bush proposal that it lacks.
John McQuaid: It's Neither a Surge Nor an Escalation
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A blind woman had just regained her sight: did she really ascribe that to her own intervention?
GRACE
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She told them that nobody yet knew to whom the Will would ascribe them, but that if they came to her she'd happily give them away.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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An autopsy eventually ascribed the baby's death to sudden infant death syndrome.
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I see you providing no evidence that the wisdom language ascribed to Jesus is "the one and only top-ladder creation language idiomatical biblical language which is uniquely associated with Godhead in the history of Judaism.
HANDS Across the Godhead?
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After years of research, scholars have finally ascribed this anonymous play to Christopher Marlowe.
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The second view ascribes it to the word Asama, meaning "unequalled" or
Zee News : India National
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Although apparently that doesn't matter as the media seems to ascribe a high degree of credibility to the term "amatuer", at least when it comes to archaeology.
Noah's Ark or Bosnian Pyramids?
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Nothing could be gathered from the outside, except remarks on the various properties which philosophers ascribe to matter, -- length, breadth, depth, and weight, The packet was composed of strong thick paper, imperviable by the curious eyes of the gossips, though they stared as if they would burst from their sockets.
The Antiquary — Complete
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amiable and unassuming," and though one of the first, if not the first lady at Vienna, as not at all partaking of the insolence and hauteur which is by some ascribed to the society of that capital.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
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The character and costume of an archer, or of a spear-man, were ascribed to such as roamed through Hades, to pierce the dead with arrows or with javelins.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
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To ascribe base motivations and only base motivations, this without evidence, to your opponent is an adhominem attack.
Matthew Yglesias » The Ever-Bolder GOP
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Yet society will ascribe a very low quality of life to poor, debilitated people, despite the fact that they are sometimes the most content.
THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY
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In such a case, we can only reason on the principle that _like_ effects must have _like_ causes, that marks of _design_ imply a _designing_ cause, and that events which cannot be accounted for by _natural causes_ must be ascribed to a Power distinct from nature, and superior to it.
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
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Basson ascribed the long delay in sorting out the matter to what he described as complicated labour laws.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He ascribed his exhaustion to the heat and an unfamiliar diet.
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The phenomenon is easily seen by eye and apparently cannot be ascribed to statistical artefacts, selection procedures or flawed reduction techniques.
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But as the texts declaring the passing out, and so on, of the prâna, prove it to be of limited size, the all-embracingness ascribed to prâna in those other texts must be interpreted to mean only that the life of all living and breathing creatures depends on breath.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
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In the province of South Trondhjem the great increase of the indebtedness of the landowners is ascribed in part to the subdivision of property by the creation of _Myrmoend_, literally 'bogmen'
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
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The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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Another conceptual problem in Dixons's work arises with the manner in which he ascribes agency to the cinema without problematizing this move.
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Now, if to this real in the substance we ascribe a particular existence (for example, to motion as an accident of matter), this existence is called inherence, in contradistinction to the existence of substance, which we call subsistence.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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Christian writings did not enter into his consideration here in the very remotest degree; but it is plain that a later generation could as easily ascribe Christian writings to the inspiration of the Spirit as St Paul ascribed glossolaly and prophecy.
The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.
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The men benefit from a similar freedom to remake themselves outside masculinist stereotypes thus showing that the roles ascribed by any culture to beasts, men, and women are not fixed and immutable but open to negotiation.
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An autopsy eventually ascribed the baby's death to sudden infant death syndrome.
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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
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A blind woman had just regained her sight: did she really ascribe that to her own intervention?
GRACE
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Heterogeneous elements, taken from all the religions of the Orient, were combined in the uranography of the ancients, and in the power ascribed to the phantoms that it evoked, vibrates in the indistinct echo of ancient devotions that are often completely unknown to us. [
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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As long as a believer ascribes his views to his faith, he can say anything he wants and if you don't like it, you're the bigot.
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Give -- or, "ascribe" (Ps 29: 1) due honor to Him, by acts of appointed and solemn worship in His house.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic.
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Some ascribe this to his natural genius; while others think that incredible effort and toil produced these, to all appearances, easy and unlaboured results.
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The curious discrepancies between the Trattato della Famiglia as written by Alberti and as ascribed to Pandolfini can only be explained upon the hypothesis of such rifacimento.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
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I was surprised to observe his frowning aspect on landing, and ascribed it to the circumstance of his being the "harse," or harrow, a term of derision applied to the slowest canoe.
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.
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The three properties which Peirce had ascribed to scientific method in the context of experimental practice, namely fallibilism, corrigibility and progressivism, could be obtained in the application of critical intelligence to social and political problems.
Sidney Hook
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Among the Volunteers, the tendency was to ascribe their difficulties to personality deficiencies in the field staff.
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The early onset of agricultural innovation there cannot be ascribed to above-average urban demand.
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To that one in the solution of which the latter could do nothing but commit paralogisms (namely, that of immortality), because it could not lay hold of the character of permanence, by which to complete the psychological conception of an ultimate subject necessarily ascribed to the soul in self-consciousness, so as to make it the real conception of a substance, a character which practical reason furnishes by the postulate of a duration required for accordance with the moral law in the summum bonum, which is the whole end of practical reason.
The Critique of Practical Reason
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'limitation of abode,' and the 'minuteness' ascribed to Brahman, are merely for the purpose of meditation.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
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The confinement made him fretful and exacting, and the old Marquise ascribed the change in his behaviour to the deplorable influence of his tutor, a "laic" recommended by one of Raymond's old professors.
The Custom of the Country
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distinction of a banshie is only allowed to families of the pure Milesian stock, and is never ascribed to any descendant of the proudest Norman or boldest Saxon who followed the banner of Earl Strongbow, much less to adventurers of later date who have obtained settlements in the Green Isle.
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
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A writer in the "Atlantic" [1] gravely tells us the wood thrush is sometimes called the hermit, and then, after describing the song of the hermit with great beauty and correctness, coolly ascribes it to the veery!
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
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This is the one insight into psychical reality that Frankenstein ascribes to a female character.
Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
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Portugal's sixteenth-century king Sebastian, ascribed messianic splendours after his death, was a total disaster in life.
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It has been ascribed to syphilis; but syphilitic leukoderma is generally the result of cicatrices following syphilitic ulceration.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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An autopsy eventually ascribed the baby's death to sudden infant death syndrome.
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This play is usually ascribed to Shakespeare.
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At the same time, a start was made on a general theory which ascribed all electromagnetic processes taking place in ponderable substances to electrons.
Hendrik A. Lorentz - Nobel Lecture
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I am reluctant to ascribe supernatural powers to a fortune teller.
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This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénaults Abrégé Chronologique, and in the preface to the third edition of this work Hénault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this couplet.
Quotations
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Nothing could be gathered from the outside, except remarks on the various properties which philosophers ascribe to matter, — length, breadth, depth, and weight, The packet was composed of strong thick paper, imperviable by the curious eyes of the gossips, though they stared as if they would burst from their sockets.
The Antiquary
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She told them that nobody yet knew to whom the Will would ascribe them, but that if they came to her she'd happily give them away.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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An autopsy eventually ascribed the baby's death to sudden infant death syndrome.
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Around the world, people ascribe god-like attributes to lightning, rivers or even old buildings.
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The report ascribes the rise in childhood asthma to the increase in pollution.
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Could you know that your letter with its catalogue of advantages and arrangements must offend me as much as if, belies (let us hope) you and the woman of your love, I would pardon the affront of it upon us all, and ascribe the unseemly want of warmth to reserve or to the sadness which grips the heart when joy is too palpitant.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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To the manucode is ascribed practical interference with the laws of Nature.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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We ascribe them a certain nobility and "work ethic", and conversely we dislike scavengers.
Notes from the field: Vultures in the neighborhood
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My only quibble with this fine book is with the way in which it which it casually ascribes ultimate influence on the shaping of genres to the power of commerce and its supposedly attendant sensibilities.
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Ex-radicals usually ascribe their evolution to the inevitable giving way of idealistic youth to responsible maturity.
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He ascribed his success to hard work.
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That is all down to human error, and cannot be ascribed to the machines.
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While some locals have ascribed the lights to UFOs, others blamed swarms of fireflies or even glow-worms.
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She told them that nobody yet knew to whom the Will would ascribe them, but that if they came to her she'd happily give them away.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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The painting was ascribed to an unknown artist.
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This is strong evidence that these eruptions caused, at least in part, the global die-off, which some scientists have ascribed to a meteor impact.
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The author's claim that the biblical creation story associates woman with ‘inborn evil’ relies upon a Christian interpretation of the Fall of Man story in Genesis, which ascribes the dogma of Original Sin to Eve's eating the apple.
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The program notes ascribed a savage or exotic otherness to the performers who were packaged into neatly schematised and imperialised glosses for ready consumption by the spectator.
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And the reason of this extraordinary fruitfulness is because their waters issued out of the sanctuary; it is not to be ascribed to any thing in themselves, but to the continual supplies of divine grace, with which they are watered every moment (Isa.xxvii. 3); for, whoever planted them, it was that which gave the increase.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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It seems to me that the heavily capitalized structure of film production and distribution would seem to make it a difficult medium for the kind of motility you ascribe to demotic.
Site Four: Romantic Populism and Insurgent Civil Society.
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“To ascribe base motivations and only base motivations, this without evidence, to your opponent is an adhominem attack.”
Matthew Yglesias » The Ever-Bolder GOP
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Neither can we be surprised that the duergar, ascribed by many persons to this source, should exhibit a darker and more malignant character than the elves that revel by moonlight in more southern climates.
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
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The strata next below the Pleistocene gravels and cave deposits are ascribed to the "Pliocene age" -- older than these are the "Miocene" and the "Eocene," and then you come to the Chalk, a good white landmark separating newer from older strata.
More Science From an Easy Chair
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A name ascribed in different senses by analogy signifies different relations to one and the same thing, as
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
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The ornamental details and mouldings of this style generally partake of late Norman character; and the zig-zag and semicylindrical mouldings on the faces of arches appear to predominate, though other Norman mouldings are common; but we also frequently meet with specimens in the Semi-Norman style in which extreme plainness prevails, and the character is of that nature as to induce us to ascribe such buildings to rather an early period.
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
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Hellenes, who ascribed them to a race of giants called Cyclops; hence the name Cyclopean that also attaches to them.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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We come nextly to consider what is ascribed unto the Spirit himself in a way of compliance with these acts of God whereby he is given and administered.
Pneumatologia
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These are situated in the basal portions of a great norite intrusive, and are ascribed to segregation of the sulphides as the rock solidified.
The Economic Aspect of Geology
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The singular and mystic forms of initiation, the system of enigmatical phrases, the use of the signs and symbols of recognition, may probably be ascribed to the period when the whole system was united to the worship of the Deities of Vengeance, and when the sentence was promulgated by the Doomsmen, assembled, like the Asi of old, before the altars of Thor or Woden.
Anne of Geierstein
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Alternatively, the lack of multi-year floes in the shorefast ice can be ascribed to the weather systems occurring just before freeze-up.
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Food poisoning -- commonly called ptomaine poisoning -- and the effects ascribed to "salts of tin" result from improper handling and improper preparation of the product before packing, or from allowing the product to stand in the tin after it has been opened.
Every Step in Canning
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Its authority governed even the succession to the throne, in event of dispute between two members of the royal family; it alone was empowered to make laws or "assizes", and to its initiative was due the compilation of the "Assizes of Jerusalem", erroneously ascribed to Godfrey of Bouillon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Firstly, it seems to leave out the role commonly ascribed to the so-called motoric part of the nervous system in bringing about bodily action; and secondly, the acknowledgment of the dependence of consciousness on corporeal 'dying' implies that willing is an unconscious activity because of its being based on life processes of the body.
Man or Matter
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According to the dialogue 'Alcibiades', ascribed to Plato , the Persian Magi were priests, who practiced a form of spiritual mysticism which was their religion.
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The 39-year-old businessman ascribes his career to his exploratory spirit and wise management.
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Notes are not to be understood as signs — signifying symbols arbitrarily ascribed to signified ideas in a code, a game of differentiation where the meaning of each sign is determined by its not being the other signs in the system, where its usage is delimited by its difference from them.
Archive 2009-07-01
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In both [the melodic inventor and the contrapuntist] this is to be ascribed more to the energies of genius, and to some natural and inborn talent than to craftsmanship.
MUSICAL GENIUS
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That confession was required before Communion is evident from the penitential ascribed to St. Columbanus, which orders (can. xxx) "that confessions be given with all diligence, especially concerning commotions of the mind, before going to Mass, lest perchance any one approach the altar unworthily, that is, if he have not a clean heart.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Yet society will ascribe a very low quality of life to poor, debilitated people, despite the fact that they are sometimes the most content.
THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY
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However, I was shocked to find that they ascribe pavlova, n. (p. 832) simply to orig.
Even More Pavlova
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What he means by that is when some work or action is ascribed to someone the word ascribe is chosen because we are happy about whatever the story entails.
History
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Certainly, therefore, anger, and the like affections, can by no means be ascribed to the infinitely perfect God in the proper and usual acceptation of the words, but only by an anthropopathy; attributing that to God, which bears some analogy and proportion to what we find in men.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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His comments on prematurity also cast light on the way in which he appraised the Claimant's evidence and the benefit he ascribed to the proposed housing provision itself.
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A lot of systems and service can invade Zhang date ascribe is insecure with impertinent password, some virus software and vermian virus can guess a simpler password.
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The report ascribes the rise in childhood asthma to the increase in pollution.
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In sociological terms, her case suggests a positive and unilinear relationship between the negative tenor of existence on earth and the degree of transcendent otherness ascribed to God.
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Soon after 1750, however, as occult sciences were ascribed to the Templars, their system was readily adaptable to all kinds of Rosicrucian purposes and to such practices as alchemy, magic, cabbala, spiritism, and necromancy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Yet society will ascribe a very low quality of life to poor, debilitated people, despite the fact that they are sometimes the most content.
THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY
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It's probably too pat to ascribe Come Around Sundown's gentle back-pedal from the huge success of its predecessor to some Tennessean burglars.
Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown – review
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In every group most of those who believed that teething causes symptoms ascribed irritability, dribbling or drooling, biting objects, sleep problems, inflamed gums, and red cheeks to teething.
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But Aristotle seems to be against this opinion, who hath observed that oil grows sweeter by being kept in vessels not exactly filled, and afterwards ascribes this melioration to the air; for more air, and therefore more powerful to produce the effect, flows into a vessel not well filled.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Conventional wisdom ascribes a similar view to Woodrow Wilson.
Andrew Levine: When the Leaders Speak of Human Rights
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The carcinogenic effect of diesel exhaust exposure is mainly ascribed to the inhalation of particles.
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Gain, D. B., ed. _The Aratus ascribed to Germanicus Caesar_.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Soprano, alto, tenor and bass parts are all ascribed to him.
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You deify your politics and ascribe your political positions as those of your “god” without so much as a hint of biblical basis for your assertion or belief.
Think Progress » Fox News Televangelist Hume: Tiger Would Be ‘Farther Down The Road’ To ‘Forgiveness’ With Christianity
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Shall we ascribe this to the superiority of their faith and courage, or to our less intimate knowledge of their history!] † Pliny says, that the greater part of the Christians persisted in avowing themselves to be so; the reason for his consulting Trajan was the periclitantium numerus.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The doctrine of the trinal unity of man (the what Does, what Knows, what Is) ascribed to John (vv. 82-104), and upon which his discourse may be said to proceed, leads up the presentation of the final stage of the Christian life on earth -- that stage when man has won his way to the kingdom of the "what Is" within himself, and when he no longer needs the outward supports to his faith which he needed before he passed from the "what Knows".
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
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For example, one individual's aggressive behaviour was ascribed to his loss of able-bodied friends following impairment.
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It was here that he baptized St. Augustine, and burst out with the grand _Te Deum Laudamus_, ascribed to him.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
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The end-point of a narrative based on a world of baroque, grotesque, (post) Modern, neo-primitivist or modern archaic aesthetics are just as likely to be the "revel" or "conceptual breakthrough" Clute ascribes to Horror and SF.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Thomas Hobbes ascribed to mankind a "perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
James Sample: Roberts: Corporate $peech Good, Presidential Speech "Very Troubling"
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“The identity ¦ we ascribe to bodies, whether natural or artificial, is not perfect identity; it is rather something which, for the conveniency of speech, we call identity”
Reid on Memory and Personal Identity
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The generality wish for the return of harlequin, who though he cannot appear as he used to do, with his motley coat and wooden sword, often struts about in the hero's dress to delight them; at least it is only to this that I can ascribe the miserable pantomimes with which the tragic actors inter - sperse their tragedies.
A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan
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He ascribed the poor results to poverty and the lack of resources at most schools.
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Among African-art dealers, pieces such as these are usually ascribed to the Koro, and at least one individual suggested that they were used as pounders of grain.
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It is disingenious to ascribe every heat wave to global warming but explain away all extremal cold events as "just weather".
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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I sometimes throw in "omnivorous" alongside "omniscient" and "omnipotent" when mentioning the classic attributes ascribed to God, just to see whether people are paying attention, or are pleased as long as what is said about God is prefaced by "omni".
Time To End The Kindergarten Revolution
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Indeed, the "vis inertiæ" which is ascribed to matter is itself a power, and a very formidable one; it is described by Baxter himself as "a kind of positive or stubborn inactivity," as "something receding further from action than bare inactivity," for "_matter is so powerfully inactive a thing_!
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
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Of the Epistle, when it was remarked, in the hearing of Thomas Warton, that it had more energy than could have been expected from Walpole, to whom others ascribed it, Warton remarked that it might have been written by Walpole, and buckramed by Mason.
Lives of the English Poets
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Thus the Greek phrase leuke hemera, or leukon himar (AEschylus, Pers. 305), is commonly derived from a custom ascribed to the Scythians or Thracians, of indicating each happy day which they spent with a white stone placed in an urn, each unhappy with a black.
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
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The facts which I have adduced clearly prove that the straws of the cereals possess a far higher nutritive power than is commonly ascribed to them; that when properly harvested they contain from 20 to 40 per cent. of undoubted nutriment; and lastly, that it is highly probable that their so-called indigestible woody fibre is to a great extent assimilable.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
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Although not a surrealist, Gray does ascribe to the idea of convulsive beauty: beauty, even grim beauty, in the service of liberty.
Ecstatic Days
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Dedekind regards this principle as being essentially indemonstrable; he ascribes to it, rather, the status of an axiom ‘by which we attribute to the line its continuity, by which we think continuity into the line.’
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Generally ascribed to the Priscillianist school are the prologues to the four Gospels as they are found in many Old Latin texts.
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He partly ascribed the problems to a shortage of skills at municipal level in treating drinking water and waste water.
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Only one in 12 instances of poor quality can be ascribed to insufficient effort by the practitioner.
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Apart from this political conjuncture, the debate in 1996 was also driven by years of organized, sustained, and effective attacks on the rationale for welfare and the outcomes ascribed to it.
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Social status was ascribed and sustained by class endogamy.
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In view of the range he ascribes to the culverin, some remarks on gun performances are in order.
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The exceptive particle at the entrance, with the apologetical design of the whole verse, ascribes such things to the saints, to whom the apostle speaks, as they were not partakers of concerning whom he had immediately before discoursed.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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From all other activities that are elsewhere ascribed to the Holy Spirit we conclude that His work in this case must have been anticipatory of the creative work that followed, a kind of impregnation with divine potentialities.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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This is a fundamentally social act, which links trust to the ability to act autonomously, to recognise that in others, and to act outside of predefined or ascribed roles.
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Jesus refused to ascribe ultimacy either to religious doctrines or traditions ... or to the claims of the state ...
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love: Seeking The True Church
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If they are, they possess a virtue which produces, in some measure at all events, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if their content does not bring riches, it banishes the desire for them.
Across China on Foot
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The decoration is ascribed to an anonymous engraver whose hand has been identified on approximately eighteen monteiths of the period.
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The painting was ascribed to an unknown artist.
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Shilonite, The that is, the native or resident of Shiloh; a title ascribed only to Ahijah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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There is some confusion about exactly what voice he sang; soprano, alto, tenor and bass parts are all ascribed to him.
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This has been called the Epicurean Hypothesis, because Epicurus, while nominally admitting the existence of God, denied the creation of the world, and ascribed its origin to atoms supposed to have been endued with motion or certain inherent properties and powers, and to have been self-existent and eternal.
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
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The philosophy, to which Leibniz thus ascribed irenics as one of its chief aims, is a partial idealism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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I heard enough of those kind of comments in high school to last a lifetime and can only ascribe its appearance in a normally responsible publication to poor editing and lack of forethought.
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And I'm just telling you, I did my duty, and it's politics, you know, to kind of ascribe all kinds of motives to me.
~ Angry Bear
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Similarly, her consideration of wearing a crucifix as jewellery was linked to assumptions that individuals might ascribe to the wearer.
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However, it requires that we ascribe interests to entities that are unable to suffer any pain or frustration if their so-called interests are not met.
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Where, of course, Divine immanence is held to mean the "allness" -- which is the strict equivalent of the infinity -- of God, evil in every shape and form will either have to be ascribed to the direct will and agency of God Himself, or for apologetic purposes to be reduced to a mere semblance, or "not-being.
Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
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Protestants of the present day, perhaps the most surprising feature of all may appear to be the title ascribed to the Pope by the judges, whilst publicly and solemnly dispensing the laws of the country.
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
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Mooden Sheriff ascribes its emetic properties to the pulp alone, the epicarp and seeds being inactive according to his authority.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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Appealing to both forces, we ascribe interruption to perceptions and continuance to objects.
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We could ascribe unambiguously the content of each spermathecae to either of the two mates for only 12 females.
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I do think that many mysteries ascribed to our own inventions have been the corteous revelations of spirits; for those noble essences in heaven bear a friendly regard unto their fellow-nature on earth; and therefore believe that those many prodigies and ominous prognosticks, which forerun the ruins of states, princes, and private persons, are the charitable premonitions of good angels, which more careless inquiries term but the effects of chance and nature.
Religio Medici
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Gratian ascribed to the concubinage relationship the quality of marital affection which the Roman jurists had reserved for marriage unions.
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We learn from II Mach., ii, 13, that at the time of Nehemias there existed a collection of books containing historical, prophetical, and psalmodic writings; since the collection is represented as unifrom, and since the portions were considered as certainly of Divine authority, we may infer that this characteristic was ascribed to all, at least in some degree.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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But first of all, let me advert to one or two cases where divinity is ascribed without progenitorship.
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
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One can easily get into a verbal mess at this point, and my own experience with pragmatism 'makes me shrink from the dangers that lie in the word' practical, 'and far rather than stand out against you for that word, I am quite willing to part company with Professor Bergson, and to ascribe a primarily theoretical function to our intellect, provided you on your part then agree to discriminate' theoretic 'or scientific knowledge from the deeper' speculative 'knowledge aspired to by most philosophers, and concede that theoretic knowledge, which is knowledge _about_ things, as distinguished from living or sympathetic acquaintance with them, touches only the outer surface of reality.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
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The genesis of abdominal pain or disordered bowel habit is generally ascribed to abnormal colonic motor function.
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His face is described as ruddy, and he is said to have possessed many qualities which are also ascribed to Satan.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
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hire" of her worshipping them; and they shall again become what they had been before, the hire of spiritual harlotry, that is, the prosperity of the foe, who also being worshippers of idols will ascribe the acquisition to their idols [Maurer].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Three effects are ascribed to Babylonian broth (which was made of moldy bread, sour milk, and salt): -- It retards the action of the heart, it affects the eyesight, and emaciates the body.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
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He ascribed his failure to bad luck.
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It would be incorrect to ascribe the victories of our gymnasts to me, personally.
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Nor is the failure of the pursuit wholly to be ascribed to the familiar fact that to Caucasian eyes all Chinamen look alike, but rather to their acting alike, in a body, to defeat discovery at any cost.
IX. Chinatown
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What credibility, if any, could be ascribed to pre-Columbian and early Spanish sources, to the codices, the chronicles, and the calendar stones that were being dug up in Mexico?
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It is worth nothing the qualities this historian ascribes to them: they were fearless, high-principled, deeply versed in ancient and modern political thought, astute and pragmatic, unafraid of experiment, and --this is significant--"convinced of man's power to improve his condition through the use of intelligence""---Barbara Tuchman
"An ambiguously worded political compromise written hundreds and hundreds of years ago."
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If it were preposterous nonsense to say that electricity, or magnetism, or odyle, contrived and made a little bracelet box, how much more absurd to ascribe the making of the cavity of the eye to any such cause.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
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Besides, that blindness, ignorance, darkness, deadness, which is everywhere ascribed to us in the state of nature, doth fully comprise that also whereof we speak.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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This invention is ascribed to Edison.
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Setting the outlaw apart and marking him as truly heroic, oral traditions in particular ascribe his continued success to supernatural protection.
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He ascribed his success to hard work.
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I ascribe to Rabbi Luria's ideas about the pleroma, the tikkum and our cumulative, individual roles in bringing redemption through the simple magic of human acts.
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She now involves an assistant who understands what she wants, though she still ascribes the results to chance.
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An interpretation of quantum mechanics that ascribes a nonlocalized position to a charged particle on its way through the apparatus is committed to a violation of spatiotemporal separability in the Aharonov-Bohm effect, since the particle's passage constitutes a nonseparable process.
Holism and Nonseparability in Physics
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For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this — and rightly ascribed it — to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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The fact that the supposed deposits were so uniformly described as gelatinous substance forms a presumption in favor of the supposition that they had the origin ascribed to them.
The Book of the Damned
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He ascribed his success to hard work.
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Latin.tom. v.p. 702) on the episcopal mitre of the popes, is ascribed to the gift of Constantine, or Clovis.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Where every member of a group shares the same fault, but only one member's fault leads to any harm, and that not because it was more of a fault than that of others, but only because of independent fortuities, many will be inclined to ascribe collective liability to the whole group (Feinberg 1968, p. 687).
Collective Responsibility
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Normally I am very careful before I ascribe such sinister motives to a government agency.
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The key development here is a switch from prior non-causal, parallelist views to a new causal, or "interactionist" interpretation that ascribes to inner experience an integral causal control role in brain function and behavior.
Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture
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And so we have the creation of matter by a powerful thought, which is that the materialists stick at; for if they suppose one single thinking atom to have produced all the rest of matter, they cannot ascribe that pre-eminency to it upon any other account than that of its thinking, the only supposed difference.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Together with you and me, and all the ransomed church, they will ascribe constant praise, worship and glory to the King of Kings.
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An autopsy eventually ascribed the baby's death to sudden infant death syndrome.
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The following Canon is ascribed to S. Theodore of the Studium, though Baronius has thought that it cannot be his, because it implies that peace was restored to the Church, whereas that hymnographer died while the persecution still continued.
Hymns of the Eastern Church
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After the 2000 election, the panjandrums of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council ascribed Vice President Al Gore's failure to win the presidency to his ‘business-bashing populism.’
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It is worthy of remark that both lycanthropists and witches ascribed the power of disembodying themselves to the use of ointments.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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David asked about the word ascribe which literally means "to write.
Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
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We ascribe to the philosophy that if she's not shrieking in pain, she's fine.
