New York City police department officials are attributing a continued rise in gun violence to gang activity and hot weather, after more than a decade of consistently falling shooting rates in the city.
The TV comedy gold of Basil Fawlty thrashing his car for 'deliberately' breaking down on Gourmet Night is an illustration of our human tendency towards anthropomorphism - attributing human like characteristics to non-human things.
Earlier this year, the National School of Public Health said stillbirths had increased 21.5% from 3.31 per 1,000 in 2008 to 4.01 per 1,000 in 2011, attributing the rise to the growing rate of unemployment among women and the inability to access healthcare.
There is absolutely no way of knowing if the government's tightening up of conditionality, announced in the PM's speech, will affect the level of immigration, let alone net immigration and there is no way of attributing any change to today's particular policy announcements.
Austin offered no indication as to why a far less resourced initiative in 2014 will succeed, attributing its spring collapse in northern Iraq to "poor leadership", a reference to the deposed Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.
But experts say compiling casualty statistics for heatwaves is extremely difficult owing to difficulties in attributing cause of death and registering fatalities in remote areas.
McCall agreed, attributing the criticism to a small faction of conservatives who are simply louder in their opposition as opposed to larger in number.
Most observers are attributing the prime minister's boost to the crisis in Ukraine.Poland is in middle of the campaign for the European Parliament elections on May 25th, which are being treated as a rehearsal for Poland's own elections next year.
In contrast, climate scientists have been ultra-cautious about attributing specific weather events to global warming.
Focusing on links between climate change and the local weather thus makes sense in terms of both science and public understanding.In principle, attributing the weather to climate change might seem straightforward.
In fact, according to the NBS, it was 9.5%, a significant upturn from the third quarter's 9.1%.The bureau put a brave face on the figures, attributing the quickened pace of growth at the end of last year to stronger than expected performances in agriculture and services the parts of the economy China still wants to boost.
