The phrase "attributing the cause of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the identification of reasons or factors that lead to a particular outcome or event.
Example: "The researchers are attributing the cause of the decline in bee populations to pesticide use and habitat loss."
Alternatives: "assigning the reason for" or "linking the origin of".
It's deeply dishonest in terms of attributing the cause of the crisis to the RM T.
The imam was luckier than some victims of police interrogations here, who, according to Human Rights Watch, are sent home wrapped in sheets soaked with blood, along with dubious explanations from the coroner's office attributing the cause of death to heart or kidney failure.
Abu Mazen has reached a new low in attributing the cause of massacres of Jewish people over the years to their "social behavior relating to interest and banks". To all those who think Israel is the reason that we don't have peace, think again.
Although we found an association between crowding and the time required to complete emergent PCI in our ED, the observational nature of our study precludes our attributing the cause of these treatment delays to overcrowding.
Fire officials are attributing the cause of the blaze to a cooking fire at or near a homeless encampment.
Ulitskaya likened today's atmosphere to the bygone days of the 70s and 80s, when people had to create political spaces in their kitchens, carving out their public civic life in private, attributing the cause of this shrinking to an atmosphere of fear that has been restored.
One of the main challenges in attributing the causes of global warming lies in the representation of the natural internal variability of the Earth's climate.
Following and predicting temperature rises tends to be much less complex than predicting – and attributing the causes of – changes in precipitation patterns.
Attributing the causes of infertility to supernatural causes such as evil spirits and God's retribution, and seeking help from faith and traditional healers may be a projection of the social stigmatization for infertile women and the strong desire for motherhood.
It was not clear whether the non-persistence was due to patient apathy toward the benefit of their therapy, to patients attributing the causes of their fractures to treatment failure, or due to prescribers deciding to discontinue the therapy and opting for another treatment strategy.
