The phrase "ascribe that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when attributing a particular quality, action, or idea to someone or something.
Example: "Many scholars ascribe that theory to the influence of early philosophers."
Alternatives: "attribute that" or "assign that".
Some ascribe that late take-off to chance.
Rather, they ascribe that to the failings of Labour governments in the past to connect with their traditional base of voters.
Low-income Americans have disproportionate levels of obesity, and many ascribe that fact to diets that include fast food like that at McDonald's as a staple.
Certainly, watching Zeta-Jones's Tony-night performance of "Send in the Clowns" on YouTube, I was struck by how mannered and breathy it was – how utterly phoney – but I suppose one can't necessarily ascribe that to issues of nationality.
Quickie "cures" by pills enable adults involved with a child to ascribe that child's problems to something needing fixing within the child rather than within the child's relationships with others.
Did you think that when I walk outside at night, and the moon follows me everywhere I go, that I would ascribe that to some kind of "optical illusion"?
Mr. Hedl ascribed that to the lingering power of Croatian nationalists.
Mr. Gans ascribes that to simple reluctance of American builders to try new technologies.
She ascribed that lack of volume to the changing times — the diminished controversy attending gay and lesbian issues.
Tim Desmond, senior vice president at Stribling and Associates, noted that some area town houses were lingering, but ascribed that to overpricing.
Key ascribes that tendency "partly to creative ambition", he says, "and partly to the fact that I can't do standup".
