Sentence examples for try to assign from inspiring English sources

The study did not try to assign causes.

Mr. Yang said it was too soon to try to assign blame.

Now behaviorists try to assign motivation to behavior, with little evidence.

"If you try to assign a sort of conceptual definition, you find yourself in strange places," Mr. Lowery said.

"It's a very tricky play because you're going to try to assign blame," said Russ Schriefer, a Republican consultant.

It's often hard, as we try to assign responsibility for an outcome, to untangle luck from foresight.

I tried to assign a motive to each bathroom reader.

When this project failed to work out they tried to assign him to a Margaret O'Brien script.

"We've been trying to assign fiction," he said, "to make it topical, relevant.

But employees balked when Mr. Nasser tried to assign grades to them according to performance.

Given this thesis, Vertosick tries to assign a Darwinian rationale to each type of human pain.