Shilonite, The that is, the native or resident of Shiloh; a title ascribed only to Ahijah. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
That was and is the acronym ascribed to close friends of former president Bill Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [The Minority Report -] Reference
A name ascribed in different senses by analogy signifies different relations to one and the same thing, as. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
We clearly need to replace the name ascribed to those whose ideology got us into this situation in the first place: the Neoconservatives. From Wordnik.com. [Making Sense of the News: Time To Update Some Terms] Reference
You know as well as I do that it is only by metaphor that you can twist the word ascribed to the great Athenian into the sense of hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference
First, the labels ascribed to many potential policy tools render sensible options taboo, loading what could be rational, economic or social measures with moral baggage. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
A political hack is a negative term ascribed to a person who is part of the political party apparatus, but whose intentions are more aligned with victory than personal conviction. From Wordnik.com. [TPMDC Morning Roundup] Reference
"He's been named called, he's had various derogatory terms ascribed to him because of some of his appearance and sometimes because of the action he took," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Is the word "ascribed" used appropriately in this context?. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central July 4th Roundup] Reference
The whole culture has ascribed meaning to numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Pass Me An Oscar] Reference
Sara promptly -- and quite correctly -- ascribed it to Black Brady. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
This is the difference, Adler says, "between achieved and ascribed status.". From Wordnik.com. [The Strange World Of Jonbenet] Reference
The once flat-chested Smith has ascribed the expansion to her 1986 pregnancy. From Wordnik.com. [We Are Positively Shocked!] Reference
Almost half the rail accidents in the past have been ascribed to human error. From Wordnik.com. [Will Indian Trains Ever Be Safe?] Reference
I just think in general it's funny how you'll get ascribed immigration status. From Wordnik.com. [‘I’m Nobody or I’m a Nation’] Reference
This is the sharpest decline over this ascribed time in recorded history. From Wordnik.com. [Why are gas prices so high?] Reference
But so far only one has been ascribed to Newman, the cure of an American deacon. From Wordnik.com. [Pope pays tribute to Britons who resisted nazism] Reference
"Somehow it got ascribed to me that I don't want people to eat meat," Katzen said. From Wordnik.com. [No More Sacred Cows] Reference
Doubts ascribed to partial knowledge but campaigners unmoved in demanding full inquest. From Wordnik.com. [David Kelly: forensic experts say Hutton inquiry scientifically sound] Reference
Yet "warning shots" often seem to cause death or injury, generally ascribed to ricochets. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths] Reference
It is ascribed to have instigated large-scale deployments of smart-grid and wind-energy technologies. From Wordnik.com. [Sunil Sharan: Deregulation, the Forsaken Panacea for Climate Change] Reference
Jon's many aptitudes far exceed those few that were dogmatically ascribed to people like him not long ago. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Will's Aptitudes] Reference
Another Obama advantage is that he's showing signs of a quality ascribed to Roosevelt — "longheadedness.". From Wordnik.com. [How Much Change Is Change?] Reference
But Fannie and Freddie's current travails can also be ascribed to the more recent screw-ups of the big investment banks. From Wordnik.com. [Fannie, Freddie, Folly] Reference
That's generally ascribed to the fact that a world-leading 20 per cent of the power generated in Denmark comes from wind. From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Rubin: High Energy Prices, Not Wind Turbines, Make Copenhagen Green] Reference
He ascribed their survival to the fact that they had been living for many months in very hostile conditions in Sri Lanka. From Wordnik.com. [Sri Lankan Tamil refugees spark racism row in Canada] Reference
This is popularly ascribed to lingering feelings of betrayal over JFK's handling of the Bay of Pigs and the missile crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Ariel Gonzalez: President Marco Rubio] Reference
The tradition of the immense conquests extending to the western extremities of the known earth, which are ascribed to Hercules. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
Prized equally for its wonderful aroma, flavor and tummy-soothing, itch-quelling coolness, it is still ascribed magical powers. From Wordnik.com. [Oregano, basil and other members of the mint family dominate the herb garden] Reference
Cafza, and to have been founded by the African Hercules; that is, by Phoenicians; for the Phoenician conquests are ascribed to a. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
Appropriately, the exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi opens with four portraits ascribed alternatively to Bronzino, Pontormo, or both. From Wordnik.com. [Bronzino's Time to Shine] Reference
Constitution (the legislative body) the power to make laws, and the forms even direct that the enactment should be ascribed to them. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Beyond that, though, I'm not sure critics actually wield the kind of power that is commonly ascribed to them in discussions like this one. From Wordnik.com. [On critical bias] Reference
But I also think that Loeb's complaints, like the similar views that Fareed Zakaria so credulously ascribed to CEOs, have other clear policy objectives. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Robespierre of the Hedge-Fund Revolution] Reference
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