Proclivity, motivation, adeptness, clever justifications for bending and breaking the rules are evil twins of the much sought-after attributions, such as competitiveness, ingenuity, confidence, optimism, intensity, focus and dogged perseverance.
Mother Teresa, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was famous for her work with the poorest of the poor in India, had been beatified — the penultimate step before sainthood — in 2002 after the attribution of another miracle healing to her intercession.
Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr., a U.S. senator from Delaware, was driven from the nomination battle after delivering, without attribution, passages from a speech by British Labor party leader Neil Kinnock.
Some say it is viciously circular to identify Peter's mental content by what someone attributes to him; after all, an attribution of content is itself a contentful mental state (Boghossian 2010; cf. Kriegel 2010).
For Mr. Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, it was an inauspicious beginning to his first presidential campaign since 1988, when he dropped out after acknowledging using without attribution portions of a speech from a British politician.
After the false attribution, the essay launches into a tirade against the president that culminates in a comparison between him and Adolf Hitler.
You may do a double-take over the attribution — after all, it was President Obama who mentioned plans to "win the future" six times in this year's State of the Union address (then mocked himself for it at the White House Correspondents Dinnerr).
Professor Ellis separates because from since: "The cause must trigger the direct effect, not evolve through some circuitous route, as is the case with 'since.' " She also has good advice for the placement of quotation attributions: "For maximum clarity and effective presentation of a short quote, put the attribution after the statement".
The methods consisted of the following tasks: firstly, the implementation of word bigrams; secondly, the implementation of combined models of unigrams and bigrams using multiple linear regression; and, finally, the addition of an adjustment step after the score attribution taking into consideration the average of the words of the answers.
After a mistaken attribution to Reuters photographer Jim Young for a similar-looking January 2007 photograph, in January 2009 photographer and blogger Tom Gralish discovered that the poster was based on an Associated Press photograph by freelance photographer Mannie Garcia.
