The phrase "attributes this weakness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the cause or reason behind a particular weakness or flaw in a person, system, or argument.
Example: "The report attributes this weakness to a lack of proper training and resources."
Alternatives: "assigns this weakness" or "ascribes this weakness".
We should be careful not to attribute this weakness to some unalterable polarization in our country.
It is common here to attribute this weakness to physical deficiencies in Chinese people, but the real explanation lies in the quality of conservatory faculty and students.
He attributed this to weakness of deep muscles from loss of their normal origin and a change in load transmission through the fibula [27].
Pradipta Chakrabortty, a manager of the Harding Loevner Frontier Emerging Markets Fund, attributes the weakness, particularly in Africa, to the political turmoil of the Arab Spring revolts and to a run of economic and financial hardship, not there but to the north.
Gokhale attributes the weakness to Standard & Poor's downgrade of Greek and Portuguese debt to junk status.
Beach attributes the weakness to profit-taking, a slightly disappointing first quarter and some asset reallocation as institutional investors moved money out of Merck and into Pfizer (another long-time Beach favorite), which last month, amidst great media fanfare, began shipping its Viagra treatment for impotence.
Williams attributes the weakness partly to the severe winter weather and possibly to work stoppages at West Coast ports that disrupted economic activity.
Advertising executives attributed the weakness in this year's market partly to a sluggish economy and a disinflationary environment in which companies cannot raise prices to fund bigger ad budgets.
Analysts attributed the weakness to renewed inflation worries, triggered this morning by higher-than-expected growth in first-quarter GDP.
