The phrase "attribute a role" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the assignment or designation of a specific function or responsibility to someone or something.
Example: "In the project, we need to attribute a role to each team member based on their skills and expertise."
Alternatives: "assign a role" or "designate a role".
Younger adults are much more likely to attribute a role to climate change in the intensity of major storms, and their opinions appear to have shifted sharply over the past decade or so.
In view of the crucial importance of stress-induced chaperones in the protection against cell death, our data attribute a role for Hsp40 crosstalk with CSPα in neuroprotection.
Our findings stress the role of axonal geometry, a static aspect of cortical organization in controlling cortical dynamics in a flexible, stimulus specific way and in, particular, they attribute a role to a striking and usually neglected aspect of cortical organization, i.e. the existence of channels of inter-hemispheric communication of different conduction velocity.
The results show that all four cases attribute a role for children in the consent procedure.
Other studies [ 12, 13, 37] attribute a role to eIF3 for reinitiation after longer uORFs.
Apart from host factors, several studies, including ours [ 1, 10] and others [ 11, 12], attribute a role for bacterial factors in carriage.
Correction: August 9 , 2001 Thursday Because of an editing error, an article in Science Times yesterday about Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, who is optimistic about many environmental trends, attributed a role in an anecdote to him erroneously.
Relative resistance of T cells in general [13], [14] and of effector cells in particular [15], [16], have been attributed a role in disease evolution in NOD mice.
Shadoo has also been attributed a role in embryogenesis such that its downregulation in a Prnp-null embryo invariably gives rise to a lethal phenotype between E8 and E11 [19].
Firstly, VEGF-B was recently attributed a role in metabolism by controlling the trans-capillary transport of long-chain fatty acids through transcriptional regulation of FATPs in the endothelium [10], [30].
