Sentence examples for they were ascribed from inspiring English sources
They were ascribed to him because he was the totemic figure in sports broadcasting.
When these could not be denied, they were ascribed to diabolic agency or to the fraudulent practices of priests or occasionally to a misinterpretation of essentially natural phenomena.
I found this irritating in The Blue Book, partly because I wasn't convinced that the characters themselves would use the language or imagery they were ascribed (though this was partly justified by the maddening revelation that one of them was writing the book).
Since changes in voltammograms with time of resting of the alloy in an inert atmosphere were found, they were ascribed to solid state reactions of formation of compounds richer in copper from the one richer in cadmium (or pure cadmium) and pure copper.
When the symptoms of tumor recurrence first developed, they were ascribed to postoperative infection of prosthesis because metal artifacts from the prosthesis made the images difficult to interpret.
Initially, they were ascribed to the Protozoa, then transferred to the Fungi, before being reclassified as Protozoa, specifically within the Cnidosporidia.
When they weren't playing with it, they were ascribing holy properties to it".
Speusippus and Xenocrates, among others, were part of a revival of interest in Pythagoreanism within the Academy; it is often thought that in the course of this revival Pythagorean views became distorted through the attempt to assimilate them to the views of one or another member of the Academy: the revival plainly involved Academicians adopting the views they were ascribing to the Pythagoreans.
"Contact events," such as abductions, are often associated with UFOs because they are ascribed to extraterrestrial visitors.
They are ascribed to negative feedback regulation of the reactions of the Calvin Benson cycle limiting the photosynthetic electron transport.
They are ascribed to the effects of three-dimensional (3D) flow structures, pore pressure and cohesion, which are not considered in the present 2D model.
