Sentence examples for attributed to a decision from inspiring English sources

The record performance has been partly attributed to a decision by former prime minister Sir John Major to use national lottery money to fund sport, and to a ruthless focus on winnable events.

Silver prices dropped more than 5 percent on Monday, a decline attributed to a decision by the CME Group, which is the parent of the Chicago Board of Trade, to increase the margins for futures trading on silver.

In fact, in such studies, research results should be attributed to a decision or change in behavior of a target group, and, next, the impact of the decision or behavioral change should be measured.

In Edinburgh, Scotland, for example, an outbreak of HIV among IDUs in the mid-1980's has been attributed to a decision reached by pharmacists and the police to halt sales of syringes to customers who appeared to be IDUs by subjective judgment [ 19].

Decision-makers can anticipate their post-decisional regret, and they are well aware that also avoiding decision-making has consequences which might be retrospectively attributed to a decision-maker.

Instead it emailed us the following statement, attributed to a spokesperson: "The decision is not only against innovation, it also prevents customers from making an informed choice for themselves about whether a service like Dash Button is a convenient way for them to shop.

They argued that the pileup he was involved in Saturday could be attributed to a series of decisions made by race organizers after the Orica-GreenEdge bus became stuck under the finish line gantry.

The Netpliance change came after Lifeminders.com, another Super Bowl sponsor, parted ways with its agency, Fallon McElligott in Minneapolis, part of Publicis S.A., in a decision attributed to a shift in marketing to a business-to-business focus from a consumer orientation.

Governor Whitman chose not to run, a decision widely attributed to a fear of Corzine's money.

He finally returned to Athens in 2000, a decision he attributed to a combination of nostalgia and, again, an "abhorrence of the conservative turn of the land Down Under".

The three delays model proposes that mortality can be largely attributed to a 1) delay in the decision to seek care, 2) delay in arrival at a health facility, and 3) delay in the provision of care [ 3].