The phrase "about ascribing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of attributing something to a particular source or cause.
Example: "The article is primarily about ascribing motives to historical figures based on their actions."
Alternatives: "regarding attribution" or "concerning assignment".
So be careful about ascribing your former supervisor's behavior to drugs.
But Dr Macleod is cautious about ascribing magical qualities to the web.
I've been wondering whether, in "Dunkirk," Nolan feels morally inhibited about ascribing to real-life characters and situations the depth of imagination that he feels free to pour into fictional ones.
No scruples were felt about ascribing an objective meaning to such statements as "three empirically given bodies (practically infinitely small) lie on one straight line," without demanding a physical definition for such an assertion.
Because morale and leadership skills are judged ex post facto by military experts who have the benefit of knowing which side won, they are wary about ascribing too much weight to these factors.
While some reports have suggested that the United States and Israel were likely behind cyberattacks against Iran's nuclear program, Mr. Rogers made two points: First, he said, that people should be "very cautious about ascribing authorship" for those attacks and, second, that such defensive attacks were different from the sort of economic espionage that China is suspected to be involved in.
One way for the U.S. Census Bureau to more accurately measure racial inequality among Latinos would be to also ask about ascribed race — what other people think you are.
While I'm not about to ascribe Rubinstein's passing to signs of Palm's re-demise, I have heard of complaints of a "toxic" atmosphere at HP and the problems associated with shoehorning what was, at its core, a start-up into the dark, cadaverous corpus of Hewlett-Packard.
But it is also remarkably precise about what Kandinsky considers the practical stuff of his art, and especially about colour, ascribing particular emotional ("spiritual") qualities to each shade, grouping them into families of like and unlike, and proposing complex ways in which contrasted colours could be balanced with one another.
This got me thinking about eulogies someone ascribing a single, static identity to you, posthumously.
So I think it's important to start out from a basis of making sure that our interlocutors understand that we are talking about an issue of identity, because so often it is perceived that what we're talking about is ascribing human rights values to a behavior, which is not the discussion at all.
