Sentence examples for attributed less from inspiring English sources

It is a change, however, that Colonel King attributed less to concerns about civilian casualties than to the need to hunt smaller, more active, enemy groups.

The gruesome streak running through these movies should perhaps be attributed less to the individuals than to the country in which they grew up.

These interventions by the supernatural world can be quite common: if work goes badly, the failure is attributed less to the workers' incompetence than to the displeasure of the spirits concerned.

Senior Pentagon officials say that Mr. Hagel's public air of understatement during his first days in office — which appeared as caution or even uncertainty — can be attributed less to his bumpy road to confirmation than to the time needed to find his stride in a world of complicated issues that have changed even since he left the Senate in 2009.

The woman in a bikini was attributed less suffering but more blame than the woman wearing jeans.

When no medical explanation for the pain was provided, participants attributed less pain, reported feeling less sympathy, and were less inclined to help the patients with daily activities.

When soldiers use names that attribute less than human characteristics to the soldiers (and civilians) they encounter -- forgetting that they are human beings with families just like our own -- one thing is certain: by attributing less than human characteristics to the "enemy," we ourselves become less than human.

Republicans argue that benefits discourage people from seeking work, although economists at the Federal Reserve attribute less than one percentage point of the unemployment rate to this effect.Meanwhile, the National Employment Law Project estimates that 2m workers may lose their benefits by the end of the year.

Other graduate students were fearful of this temper, but I managed to get along well with him, a fact that I should attribute less to my charming personality and brilliant research than to the fact that, as an American, I presented a little variety and less pressure than his full-time students, who were eager to finish their degrees.

Though it's unclear what Clinton's staff thought of the Blumenthal memo, it attributes less than flattering motives to the French President's decision to intervene in Libya.

Analogously, people attribute less relevance to concepts that are not compatible with their own social identity [ 35].