He ascribes his interest in music to listening to his mother, a professional musician, play the piano when he was child.
She ascribes the interest to the growing popularity of self-defence for women, the Qur'anic emphasis on an individual's responsibility to look after the body, and the childhood influence of Jackie Chan films on second- and third-generation British Asians.
Advocacy for the environment replays this pattern by ascribing particular interests to "voiceless" ecosystems and even individual species.
She ascribed some of that interest to the fact that Coldwell Banker recently placed ads in New York City newspapers.
The political activism of wealthy Cubans, who donate heavily to both major parties, is usually ascribed to their fervent interest in Cuban policy, but the truth is that many of them work in areas, such as banking or construction, that are closely regulated by or otherwise dependent on government; it has simply been good business practice for them to make politically powerful friends.
To handle uncertainty in the model input parameters of interest are ascribed a distribution that reflects the uncertainty associated with their true value (table 2) and entered in a probabilistic uncertainty analysis.
The dullest, wet-noodle characteristics and behaviors and thoughts and interests are ascribed to the characters.
Ditto the nations of OPEC, whose pricing decisions can hardly be ascribed to economic self-interest alone.
He ascribed his wide-ranging interests to attending an ordinary high school, rather than a professional ballet school, in Wiesbaden, Germany, where his parents eventually settled after leaving Russia.
Vicki Haberman, who sells privately and through a Web site, ascribes a heightened interest in consignment shopping partly to consumers' apparently unquenchable appetite for luxury labels, even those that are gently worn.
Matt Murphy, a partner in a fund set up by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to invest in iPhone apps, ascribes the intense interest to the consumer demand for the iPhone, as well as the unfettered distribution promised by the App Store: it limits the phone company's role as a gatekeeper.
