The technical sense of 'ascription' (āropa) is 'counterfactual or suppositional cognition' (āhāryāropa), defined as a cognition whose qualifier is an property the opposite of which is known to reside in the qualificand.
Last year, Europol, the European Union's police intelligence agency, pointed to six hundred and eighty matches between 2008 and 2011, including World Cup qualifiers, whose results it deemed suspicious.
Vince Spadea, a qualifier whose ranking has dropped to No. 159, beat 10th-seeded Andrew Ilie, 6-2, 6-1, yesterday on the opening day of the $800,000 Japan Open in Tokyo.
Sfar, a qualifier whose 11 career tournament successes have come on the ITF circuit, the lowest level of the professional game, had to negotiate three rounds of qualifying merely to share the court with the former world No1.
Djokovic advanced on Thursday with a 7-6 (2), 6-1, 6-1 victoverover Bobby Reynolds, a 30-year-old American qualifier whose departure left the United States with no men in the third round in singles for the first time since 1912 (when no American men played at all).
Karlovic is the 6-foot-10 Croatian qualifier whose shocking defeat of top-seeded Lleyton Hewitt, the defending champion, in the first match of the tournament on Center Court was head and shoulders above every other development in Wimbledon's opening week.
But now, after that brief opening of corrective clarity, he is gone again, undone in the second round by a Jamaican-German qualifier whose nonchalance, liquid wrists, whip-kick forehand, lust for the approach shot and all-round cool guy aura mark him, ironically, as a player embodying the best serve-volley traditions of Australia's storied tennis past.
Without considerable self-belief, the top-seeded Henin-Hardenne might have lost on Sunday, too, against the surprising Italian qualifier Mara Santangelo, whose unorthodox game and deft touch at the net caused Henin-Hardenne considerable consternation in the second set.
Having dealt with first-round opponent Go Soeda quickly and free of worry about his back, he would rather concentrate on his next opponent, the lightly regarded French qualifier Vincent Millot, whose world ranking of 267 should encourage little trepidation when they meet on Thursday.
However, it was felt that Carroll would only be a back-up striker and would be more use to Stuart Pearce, the under-21s coach, whose team has European Championship qualifiers against Portugal and Lithuania on the same dates as the senior team's games.
