Sentence examples for cannot be chalked up from inspiring English sources

Idiom

"Chalk up".

To attribute something to a particular cause.

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His annual failure cannot be chalked up to a lack of talent.

Surely, the omissions and skimpy attribution cannot be chalked up to space constraints.

Yet the Administration's record cannot be chalked up to the President's temperament or to Holder's poor judgment alone.

And it did, too, to Ms. Steinberg and Mr. Finer, who criticized the report's "untrue statements" and "false claims about the implications of the findings" that cannot be chalked up to merely "a scholarly difference of opinion".

Still, there were roughly 8,000 interviews conducted between the seven surveys, which means that the margin of error is small and that the trend probably cannot be chalked up to statistical noise.

And even if there are mitigating circumstances, the cases cannot be chalked up as simply collateral damage from the hurricane.Mr Lohman's plea revealed deeper truths about the department, none of them pleasant.

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The crisis today cannot simply be chalked up to lingering Muslim-vs.-Christian tensions, analysts say.

Can it be chalked up to great minds thinking alike?

That one could be chalked up to bad luck.

Of course, not all childhood difficulties can be chalked up to normal development.

Whiplash's Damien Chazelle will be chalked up as one to watch.

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