Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence
When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.
A sizeable percentage of search-engine users ascribe industry leadership to those brands within top results, and believe them to be leaders in their fields given their placement in the results.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
First of all, business is competitive and I don't think you'll find anyone who wishes their competitors well. The ultimate objective of business is to prevail and people who are too nice in doing business tend not to win, so I don't ascribe that quality to Bill Gates.
When historical relationships are taken into account, it is difficult to ascribe the house price bubble either to monetary policy or to the broader macroeconomic environment.
Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.
It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.
pitted students with religious views contrary to Islam against fellow students, faculty and members of the administration who either ascribe to Muslim views or sympathize with those who do.
We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.