Sentence examples for less attributable from inspiring English sources

But other supposed sins are in retrospect less attributable to him personally.

The elites saw the entrepreneur's wealth as less attributable to real skill than to his happening upon the right hole in the ground.

For someone who does not hear the Boston Symphony week in and week out, something seemed different: a relaxed, cushioned elegance of sound and a quality probably less attributable to Friday's conductor and players than to a third party.

Scholars have often pointed out that this view is less attributable to the Wittenberg reformer than to another theologian and preacher then beginning to be active in the Swiss city of Zürich, Huldrych Zwingli.

Indeed, Mr. Kelly's frustration was less attributable to the meeting itself than it was to the complex details of electric deregulation -- a subject so arcane that those who attended received a seven-page glossary of terms to help them follow along.

While the subsidies are not technically necessary, it is likely that adoption of the biogas systems is less attributable to credit constraints and more attributable to the uncertainty surrounding the efficacy of the systems.

When directors see their names next to unusually high "against" votes, they take that more to heart than an advisory vote, which is less directly attributable to them.

As John Ruskin put it: "Failure is less frequently attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labour, than to a confused understanding of a thing actually to be done".

The college and Halloween parties are at once the most obvious, irritating, and exhausting examples, but what of the more complex cases, the ones less easily attributable to the stupidity of youth?

But if voucher students did as poorly as comparable public school students, then Cleveland's public school "failure" is likely attributable less to what public schools do than to obstacles all schools, public and private, face in educating disadvantaged children.

But the failure to win it is attributable less to Ewing than to the coaches who misused him and to the executives who failed to provide him with a credible supporting cast until too late in his career.