The word "ascribing" is correct in written English.
It is used when attributing a quality, characteristic, or action to someone or something. Example: "She is ascribing her success to hard work and determination." Alternatives include "attributing" or "assigning."
All one needs to construct a Richard-style case is for the ascribers to be ignorant of the identities of the agents they are ascribing beliefs to.
And we should avoid ascribing to it the negative connotations associated with "instant gratification".
Ascribing all changes in the price of traded goods to freer trade is thus misleading.The skirmishes aheadDespite these differing approaches, it is remarkable that both camps broadly agree that trade has done little to increase inequality, and that technology has played a far bigger part.
If we get attacked, we all lose; if we don't get attacked, maybe that makes the case we don't need all the powers in FISA.Mr Bush rejected the notion, saying: "That would be ascribing motives that are.
BY PUTTING together a number of indicators that we believe feed unrest,and ascribing different weights to them, we have come up with a chart of Arab countries' vulnerability to revolution.
In conflict situations, conservatives are more likely than liberals to be comfortable ascribing all blame to the other guy, while liberals are more likely to assume they must bear some of the blame themselves and to reach for compromise.But the upshot of higher levels of Republican unity and toughness is that they are better than Democrats at shifting informal behavioural norms to their advantage.
Around 60% of private giving takes the form of volunteering, the value of which he measures by ascribing to it the average wage of a community worker.
Fortunately, Sherman's soldiers took notice.Mr O'Connell's writing can be engaging, but he overplays his hand in ascribing strategic and tactical motives to every aspect of Sherman's life, from his pre-war fling with banking to his bizarre family life (he married his foster sister, leading to drama "worthy of Dickens", Mr O'Connell writes).
He then one-ups himself by quoting approvingly an article comparing Nature to the Bible and Scientific American to the Koran, and ascribing to them the power of gospel truth.While notions of unquestioned authority and infallible oracles have long been shunned outside fundamentalist religious circles, apparently they have found a comfortable home among some scientists.
The tricky part is ascribing a value to the advertisers of those web site visitors, but it turns out there is a way to infer that value from advertising bidding behavior.
Hence, one should be careful before ascribing benignity or relative harmlessness to certain illicit drugs, particularly "soft drugs".Barton CobertWestfield, New JerseySIR – You ignore the impact on organised (or otherwise) crime once its principal source of revenue is cut short through legalisation.
