Sentence examples for a phrase attributed to from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a phrase attributed to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that a specific phrase or quote is associated with a particular person or source.
Example: "The phrase attributed to Albert Einstein, 'Imagination is more important than knowledge,' reflects his belief in creativity."
Alternatives: "a saying credited to" or "a quote ascribed to".

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It's a phrase attributed to her from a speech she gave in 1998.

This approach is what diplomats call "constructive ambiguity," a phrase attributed to Henry Kissinger.

Some believe Mr Kim will mark the occasion by using a phrase attributed to him, that "food is more important than bullets".

Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, chair of the Elders group of former world leaders, echoed a phrase attributed to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev talking about nuclear war in 1979, saying "climate change would leave the living envying the dead".

One of his keenest supporters, former topless model and former equal opportunities minister Mara Carfagna, lauded him with a phrase attributed to Albert Einstein: "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds".

In a phrase attributed to Edward Thurlow, an 18th-century British Lord Chancellor, a company had "no soul to be damned, no body to kick .Only individuals were able to exercise free will, and punishments "are only inflicted for that abuse of free will", wrote William Blackstone, another eminent legal figure at that time.

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Maybe de Danne should have sent his followers a translation of a famous phrase attributed to Tip O'Neil, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives: "All politics is local".

There's a lovely phrase, attributed to the futurist Roy Amara, that goes like this: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run". With this in mind, let's consider work.

Veni vidi vici," a Latin phrase attributed to Roman emperor Julius Caesar that translates as, "I came, I saw, I conquered". Walters played a large portion of his career in the Premier League with Stoke where he was an FA Cup runner-up in 2011, as well as playing five seasons in the Championship with Ipswich, where he won the club's Player of the Year award in 2007.

In Blood Omen and Defiance, his battle cry and catchphrase is Vae victis, a Latin phrase attributed to Brennus meaning "woe to the conquered".

Mr. Zhang quoted a well-known phrase attributed to a Song Dynasty official named Fan Zhongyan: "One should be the first to worry for the future of the state and the last to claim his share of happiness".

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