'attributed responsibility' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to assigning responsibility or credit to someone. For example: The manager attributed responsibility for the project to the lead engineer.
Morrissey has previously attributed responsibility for the death of the nurse Jacintha Saldanha to the Duchess of Cambridge.
Our investigation found that Palestinian militants also committed war crimes, but attributed responsibility for most of the serious international crimes in the conflict to Israel.
It was not clear what, if any, security procedures were in place to screen the contractor, and officials attributed responsibility variously to military commanders in the region, the Pentagon's logistics agency and the American Embassy in Sana, the Yemeni capital.
The 64-page analysis found that police attributed responsibility for collisions more or less evenly between drivers and cyclists overall, but this was skewed by the fact that when child riders were involved their behaviour was named as a primary factor more than three-quarters of the time.
Although issue publics usually divide about equally on opposing sides — think of abortion or immigration — 88percentt of the climate change issue public in our survey believed that global warming has been happening; 88percentt attributed responsibility for it to human action; 92 percent wanted the federal government to limit the amount of greenhouse gases that businesses can emit.
The first investigation into the blast, in which at least nine people were killed, became a cause for some embarrassment for the local police, who initially attributed responsibility to radical Muslim organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkatul-ul-Jihad-e-Islami.
The group's findings played a key role in the decision by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling to attribute responsibility for the spill to BP rather than to a faulty response by the government.
But regardless of what they find, the OPCW does not have powers to attribute responsibility.
Thus, attributing responsibility for the frequency or lack of sex to men continues," she added.
His aim, he said, was "to find and attribute responsibility wherever it belongs".
And when you're dealing with private companies it's much more difficult to attribute responsibility for potential damage.
