Sentence examples for attributing the relative from inspiring English sources
Political commentators are attributing the relative apathy in the campaign to the complexity of the issues involved and to the fact that because more than half the member countries have already taken the first step in approving the treaty by signing it, it will be enacted in January no matter how Ireland votes.
Accurately attributing the relative contributions due to Fe and SO42− reduction was limited by an inability to distinguish between non-sulfidic, solid-phase Fe(II) generated by microbial dissimilatory reduction of Fe(III) or chemical reduction of Fe(III) by H2S.
Although broadly applied, studies occasionally fail to substantiate the applicable utility of the theory in attributing the relative contribution of factors to multidimensional outcome variables.
Israeli officials attributed the relative quiet to a combination of Mr. Arafat's orders and the success of their army's "pressure" on the Palestinians.
Analysts attribute the relative strength of India's economy and foreign companies continued interest in India, for some of this rise.
Economists had attributed the relative strength in manufacturing in the first half of the year to a surge in inventory replenishment by stores that had allowed shelves to go bare during the recession.
Some attributed the relative lack of activity so far from white supremacist groups and other sources of racial attacks to the same cultural shifts that led the Democrats to become the first major party to choose a black presidential nominee.
But it is surely reasonable to attribute the relative infrequency of ethnic or racial riots in America to the presence of minority leadership in many of the nation's mainstream institutions.
Alex Zoghlin, chief technology officer of Orbitz, a travel Web site started last spring by a consortium of airlines, attributed the relative backwardness of reservations technology until recently to the airline industry's reluctance to invest in it.
Until now, Israel had attributed the relative calm for Israelis of recent months exclusively to the work of its military, saying that terrorists were still trying just as hard to kill.
More than a few attributed the relative health of the American economy to the government's stimulus efforts and to the successes of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act), which had come to the rescue of foundering American financial institutions.
