The phrase "ascribe responsibility" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to assigning or attributing a duty or burden of care to someone. For example, "The court ascribed responsibility to the employer for the employee's injuries."
Despite the debate, limited research has focused on the impact these interfaces have on how people ascribe responsibility to computing technology.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who called the report a chilling document that described a war crime, declined at a United Nations news conference on Tuesday to ascribe responsibility for that attack, a position he has consistently held.
See exploring Dilemmas, choices and responses to the Holocaust, which looks at the impulse to assign blame and ascribe responsibility for what happened as a way of making sense of the events and understanding why and how they happened.
A fact-finding mission by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is charged with destroying Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons, concluded that chlorine was used in 2014 in Syrian villages, but did not ascribe responsibility.
The OPCW is not able to ascribe responsibility for the attack, but identification of the nerve agent as novichok would strengthen the view that Russian state forces were involved.
Houry said HRW is pushing for a mechanism to ascribe responsibility for the chlorine attacks and impose sanctions on the culprits, a step that has been resisted by Russia, which backs Assad.
It ascribes responsibility for this tragicomic incident to the vanity of the Harvard chemistry professor Louis Fieser, who invented napalm.
An eyewitness, Jack Couffer, gave a fuller backstory in his book "Bat Bomb," which asserts that "the accidental incineration of Carlsbad Auxiliary Army Airfield by incendiary bats was both a high and a low in the fortunes of Project X-Ray". It ascribes responsibility for this tragicomic incident to the vanity of the Harvard chemistry professor Louis Fieser, who invented napalm.
A recent European Union report on anti-Semitism in Europe ascribed responsibility for the rising tide of violence against Jews to "young, disaffected white Europeans," a finding that flew in the face of much hard, if politically inconvenient, evidence that it is for the most part the work of Muslim youths.
And this raises the question of freedom, a necessary condition for ascribing responsibility and the heart of his philosophy.
When something goes wrong, a retrospective account of what happened is expected and the more complex the system, the more challenging is the task of ascribing responsibility (Johnson and Powers 2005).
