Sentence examples for Not ascribed from inspiring English sources

It is characteristic of Sebald that what we are reading here is not ascribed directly to the narrator.

Even when thunderstorms were not ascribed directly to the activity of a divine being, they were considered a disturbing premonition.

If the environment is not ascribed a value, the risk is that the cost of damaging it is ignored.

Mark Twain, who came up with pretty much every good line not ascribed to Oscar Wilde or Yogi Berra, said of human nature that "man is the only animal that blushes".

The risk is that the cost of damaging the landscape is ignored because it is not ascribed a monetary value, says Steve Albon, co-author of a government-commissioned report on how much the natural environment contributes to Britain's economy.

We were recording a programme about community for Radio 4, in the course of which he said something extremely interesting: that the problem with the political class, and the reason they are often so emotionally and politically distant from many ordinary people, especially in settled working-class areas, is that their identities are often achieved, not ascribed.

Not suspected leftists, certainly; nor anyone who did not ascribe to his totalitarian ideology.

Their report, the first independent on-the-ground inquest into that attack, did not ascribe blame.

Yet investors are not ascribing a whole lot of value to the Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne's grandiose plan.

The Chinese do not ascribe any special aphrodisiac qualities to wine, as they do to some hard liquor, but as in the West, wine has a romantic aura.

He does not ascribe to theories of Russia's unique Eurasian character -- nor of a Russian claim of exclusivity when it comes to establishing democratic freedoms.