For example, he said, he had always attributed his discomfort in social situations to feeling self-conscious about his eyes.
He had noticed that some officers and informants excelled at making identifications, but he had always attributed the difference to motivation.
He had always attributed his own relative lack of success to the deficiencies of the culture in which he found himself operating, and in 1924 he set art and literature aside in order to concentrate on a systematic analysis of those deficiencies.
But she had always attributed her daughter's occasionally stated discomfort with her gender to a general sadness brought on by drug abuse.
Scorsese has always attributed this fascination to his Catholic upbringing on the streets of Little Italy, Manhattan in the 1950s.
Oz has always attributed this habit to the "Judeo-Slavonic tradition" of seeing the writer as a prophet, guiding his wayward people out of the wilderness.
Not just wanting to record a superficial likeness, I needed to capture something of the strength and determination that a nation has always attributed to her.
They have always attributed a player's entire salary to the team that has him Aug. 31, even if he was traded to the team that day.
This is a phenomenon that I've always attributed to the fact that the human eye cannot track a fast-moving object at such close range.
Teachers had always attributed my reading problems to the fact that I was bilingual, or they thought I was behind because of moving so often between countries.
