Too often they impute racism to those who disagree.
If Mr Starr can impute crimes to Mr Clinton in Whitewater, can he indict him for a felony committed when he was not president?
It will no longer be slanderous to impute unchastity to a woman, or to say someone suffers from "venereal disease, leprosy or the plague".More important are the proposed new statutory defences against libel claims: truth, public interest and honest opinion.
For the remaining 191, they have to "impute" wealth, based on how they compare with the countries they do know something about.What do they find?
Even heel-clicking Oliver North, when it came to his criminal trial on Iran-contra charges, felt he had to impute it all to the president at last.
Since the statisticians lack a direct measure of housing costs for homeowners, they impute a cost based on rents.
People generally make two types of errors in judging personality: they impute more personality consistency to others than the actors themselves would allow, and they often ignore the operation of unconscious psychological processes that can explain at least some of the inconsistencies.
Because North Dakotans are congenitally earnest, hardworking, and sincere, one naturally hesitates to impute cynical motives.
