Historians will not ignore his past, but they will surely attribute to him an absolutely key role in bringing peace and hope to Ireland after all the horror and evil.
If Gore stumbles in Iowa, his failure will surely be attributed to his personal appeal or his advertising.
Yet while they are revered – beloved in Palmer's case – Watson was merely admired, an incongruity that can surely be attributed in large part to personality.
While some of that can surely be attributed to what the polls show — widespread support for the candidate — it could also give a candidate an unfair advantage, as it makes that candidate look like the winner, even before the votes are counted.
Part of the seemingly callous, overconfident and arrogant attitude of the health centre nurses can surely be attributed to ignorance and inability to deal with uncertainty.
Although this work was done in 1601, and although it still hangs in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, it surely should be attributed to an epoch in which photography, and all it could capture of the moment, was beginning to seize the initiative from painting.
But it is surely reasonable to attribute the relative infrequency of ethnic or racial riots in America to the presence of minority leadership in many of the nation's mainstream institutions.
But surely this can all be attributed to people reading too much into innocuous happenstance, because believing that we're all being controlled by secret organisations is much less frightening than accepting the lonely purposeless reality of life on Earth?
Justine Jordan The word of the year in Europe and the US is surely "populism", to which liberal commentators have gravely attributed the surprising resurgence of far-right politics.
Caldwell somewhat overstates the case - surely the failures of European immigration can be attributed to both the hostility of the masses and the insecurity of the elites.
