In this famous example attributed to a hapless student, a dangling prepositional phrase leaves the impression that President Lincoln used an envelope as a kind of magic carpet: "Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope".
To illustrate how this approach might go, consider Pooley's proposal that the dynamical approach to special-relativistic theories might postulate only R4 topological spatiotemporal structure, which could be (for example) attributed to a massive scalar field.
In one example attributed to research by Mr. Searchinger, the committee wrote: "Clearing or cutting forests for bioenergy crops releases large stores of carbon into the atmosphere and may reduce ongoing carbon sequestration if the forest was otherwise still growing.
Lower adherence to diuretics is, for example, attributed to adverse effects and easiness of taking medication.
(1), for example, attributes to Goliath the property of being such that all of its statue-counterparts are statue-shaped.
It should not be thought, however, that just because all of these examples can be attributed to a single item i.e., motivation that their detailed explanation will always be the same.
For example, a large pollen size could be attributed to an unreduced pollen grain or dyad condition.
Natural disasters and accidents, for example, are attributed to offended gods or to an enemy who has employed a witch to harness supernatural powers.
Steinitz strove to be objective in his writings about chess competitions and games, for example he attributed to sheer bad luck a poor tournament score by Henry Edward Bird, whom he considered no friend of his, and was generous in his praise of great play by even his bitter enemies.
Many in-custody deaths caused by force, for example, are attributed to another cause, said Steve Martin, a corrections expert who has monitored excessive force cases in prisons and jails across the U.S. A death may be listed as a heart attack, but the public might not know that a stun gun was used on an inmate prior to his or her death.
For example, symptoms attributed to comorbid illnesses might actually be arising from a neglected, evolving malignancy [ 36].
