Sentence examples for attributed the idea of from inspiring English sources

He attributed the idea of a cash machine to his frustration at not being able to get access to his money one Saturday when he arrived at his bank a minute after closing time.

Asked for his assessment of the best way forward, Turnbull referred to the need for cabinet involvement and attributed the idea of a plebiscite to Abbott rather than the party room.

He also attributed the idea of a retired Doctor to a plot proposed by Douglas Adams in the 1970s, but rejected by the production team at the time.

On Wednesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg attributed the idea to recent "thinking totally out of the box" by Robert Steel, his new deputy mayor for economic development.

Promoters have attributed the idea to Song Chol and Cha Wun, two late monks who are almost universally revered as giants of Korean Buddhism.

The slide show starts off with a flurry of articles from Northern newspapers in 1868, all attributing the idea of Memorial Day to women in the South.

(Parsons attributes the idea of thematic roles to the 4th century BCE Sanskrit grammarian Pāṇini).

"This up-and-down movement from running is not going to cause you to age faster," she said, noting that she wouldn't "attribute the idea of runner's face to the motion in the skin".

"I want to attribute the ideas to you".

And, in the very first paragraph of On the Origin of Species, Darwin looks back to this 'Hurrah', attributing the idea that the origin of species is 'that mystery of mysteries' to 'one of our greatest philosophers', without mentioning Herschel by name.

Kaplan (this issue) provides an overview of the potential outcomes framework (also referred to as the Rubin model or the Neyman Rubin model, in honor of the Polish statistician, Jerzy Neyman, who is first attributed with formalizing the idea of potential outcomes; Splawa-Neyman 1923).