ADJECTIVE
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capable of being assigned or credited to
the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain
punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading
the oversight was not imputable to him
How To Use ascribable In A Sentence
- The problem with trouser suits is that despite their democratic appeal, they lack the universal qualities ascribable to men's tailoring.
- Put differently, if a mystical experience has some impact upon a person's understanding then it must be 'ascribable' to that person, by themselves or another, and so the insistence on 'non-conceptuality' is self-contradicting; About religious experience (William James, Schleiermacher etc)
- The mosque in Richardson, Texas does not lend its cultural hall to any activity that is ascribable to a particular denomination, including a few groups who celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad. Mike Ghouse: Muslim Canadians Should Ease Out Of Prayers In Public School
- To assess the statistical significance of basic differences between male and female subjects that were independent of any disturbances ascribable to shiftwork, we conducted an initial analysis.
- Their lush certain music I doubt is wholly ascribable to this trimetrical device, however, which explains only their splendid cadence.
- But, as Mark Liberman at Language Log points out, at least some of these data are no doubt ascribable to the "paper airplane effect": Archive 2010-08-01
- There is an overlapping between the goods of the body and external goods in the matter of goods ascribable to heredity, such as personal at - tractiveness or beauty, but there is no confusion be - tween external goods and goods of the soul. FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE
- Spatial impression has been regarded as the item ascribable to the quality of apparent source width (ASW) and listener envelopment (LEV) in concert halls.
- A regression from two major trophies last year to early Cup calamities and a low podium finish in the Premier League would be much more offensive to Abramovich than any minor retreat ascribable to Claudio Ranieri, José Mourinho, Avram Grant or Luiz Felipe Scolari, who never made it to the business end of the 2008-09 campaign. Carlo Ancelotti on the precipice as Chelsea prepare for Old Trafford | Paul Hayward
- All such states again as exist with stupefication (of the senses, the mind or the understanding) whose cause is unascertainable, and which are incomprehensible (by either reasons or inward light), should be known as ascribable to the action of The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12