(1) Ex-radicals usually ascribe their evolution to the inevitable giving way of idealistic youth to responsible maturity.

(2) I don't want to ascribe human reactions to my dog, because that spoils the joy of seeing things from a dog perspective.

(3) Would your workers ascribe these qualities to you?

(4) It would be nice to ascribe these ravings to a past generation, except I'm pretty sure her son, who lives in a cosmopolitan city, thinks the same way.

(5) Many people in the department ascribe his odd behaviour to drunkenness and encroaching senility.

(6) Around the world, people ascribe god-like attributes to lightning, rivers or even old buildings.

(7) One wonders if they ascribed a healing power to the paintings themselves.

(8) The reason for this difference is hypothetical and may be ascribable to two different phenomena.

(9) Have you noticed how each of us is guilty of ascribing motives to other people's actions, yet so often get it wrong?

(10) I am quite sure that no blame can be ascribed to Islington in that regard.

(11) The AP obituary says it was lung cancer and ascribes the disease to his smoking history, both of which I think are incorrect.

(12) The similar level of satisfaction in our two study groups may be ascribable to this difference, as the family doctors may have compensated for any shortcomings related to the junior physicians' inexperience.

(13) She now involves an assistant who understands what she wants, though she still ascribes the results to chance.

(14) The substantial increase in the navy in this period is ascribed to him.

(15) The 39-year-old businessman ascribes his career to his exploratory spirit and wise management.

(16) He ascribed the poor results to poverty and the lack of resources at most schools.

(17) Legislators make speeches, attend committee meetings, cast votes and leave a paper trail of positions taken and poses struck, mostly without consequences clearly ascribable to them as individuals.

(18) In 1926 Brown published a paper in which he ascribed these fluctuations to irregular changes in the Earth's period of rotation which has subsequently proved correct.

(19) When this axiom is applied to the chart of the readings of the three versions above, it will be seen that there are good grounds for ascribing the originality to the Masoretic Text.

(20) To assess the statistical significance of basic differences between male and female subjects that were independent of any disturbances ascribable to shiftwork, we conducted an initial analysis.