Scientific attribution of blame for all that—ascribing portions of disasters to climate change, and ascribing portions of climate change to particular companies—is very much at the center of these lawsuits.
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You are ascribing to it significance that it doesn't have.
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And yet ascribing a cause of death can be tricky.
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But they're wary of ascribing that upswing to public concerns.
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But ascribing guilt by association isn't the way to do it.
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Gotabaya has rejected the accusations, ascribing a political motive to them.
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The market is ascribing a negative value to this possible acquisition.
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There is precedent in China for ascribing manufactured disasters to nature.
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We naturally incline toward interpreting events and ascribing significance to them.
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Ascribing an eternity to something that was always designed to be temporary?
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We prefer to disown it, calling it 'inhumanity,' ascribing it to animals.
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Don't get hung up on ascribing intelligence or consciousness to the software.
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Ascribing to him anything deeper is, frankly, giving him too much credit.
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We prefer to disown it, calling it "inhumanity," ascribing it to animals.
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McKenzie acknowledged the timing of the attack, but refrained from ascribing motive.
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I'm all for ascribing negative social behaviors to men without any scientific basis.
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Ascribing whiteness to it might say more about the ascriber than about Peele.
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But Tony, your ascribing meaning and value to the workplace dynamics really struck me.
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At others he explains it away, ascribing it to out-of-fashion Byronic romanticism.
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We're not seeing the signs of stress that some people are ascribing to it.
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Their big question is how much value the public markets are ascribing to Uber EATS.
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Ascribing single weather events to climatic changes is almost as dodgy science as Mr Inhofe's.
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Thai authorities have a long record of ascribing acts of violence to domestic political rivals.
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He no doubt took pleasure in ascribing the fallacy to his rival and predecessor, Bundy.
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It's ascribing powers to some deity in charge of only A-listers and major world events.
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"I am extremely wary about ascribing success or failure to the show in any goal," says Schur.
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Ascribing all this to a reduction in grey-matter volume, rather than an increase, sounds counter-intuitive.
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The restriction should keep Waymo from influencing jurors into ascribing unreasonably large damages, according to the judge.
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Traders said there was no immediate news catalyst for the fall, ascribing the moves to largely technical trading.
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Scientists also faulted the charity for ascribing a cause of death after surveying the scene from the air.
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Ascribing guilt to the greedy Premier League titans, though, tends to frame the issue in a specific way.
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With quiet composure, the work cautions viewers against readily ascribing narrative meaning to the multiple sites of migration.
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Britain also stopped short of ascribing blame but described the assault as a "wanton violation of international law".
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Like Popper, I think there are limits in ascribing clock-like properties to phenomena that are more cloud-like.
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It said it caricatured elderly parents by "unreasonably" ascribing "every possible bad quality" of old people to one character.
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But, ascribing strategy to every ball Trump throws may be giving him and his White House too much credit.
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" Mr. Toobin added: "I think what I am guilty of is ascribing too much importance to oral argument, period.
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The cartoonist Scott Adams has found a second career in reflexively ascribing brilliance and foresight to every presidential synapse.
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Since almost all that EBITDA comes from traditional cigarettes, it suggests investors are ascribing barely any value to Juul.
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I had spent so long ascribing excessive alcohol consumption to youth and societal messaging that equates drinking and fun.
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Instead, the album draws more subtly from these supernatural influences, ascribing an abundantly gothic morosity to Smoke's sharp looping productions.
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He explicitly blames America first, ascribing the nation's problems to the stupidity and incompetence of predecessors in the White House.
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According to NBC, it remains unknown what level of confidence the agencies are ascribing their assessment — low, medium or high.
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Consider that the cost that investors appear to be ascribing to President Trump's efforts to upend decades of trade relationships.
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Recent history and philosophy have taught that violence is the surest outcome of blithely ascribing the quality of evil to another.
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Further, these prices raise a few questions about the valuations that financial investors are ascribing to certain other, really big, ridesharing companies.
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To some audiences, ascribing murderous rampages to political motives may make more sense than a more nuanced explanation that includes mental illness.
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In fact, it's the only word equipped to convey the seriousness of our bond without ascribing either of us a fixed gender.
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Studies have repeatedly shown that crimes and domestic terrorism by individuals ascribing to far-right political ideologies have climbed since Barack Obama's presidency.
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The first is that it struggles to recognise what she calls their "autonomous agency", ascribing any behaviour it dislikes to malign American influence.
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Just days later, India took similar actions, ascribing personhood status to two of its biggest and most sacred rivers, the Ganges and Yamuna.
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Reddit users posted an even more radical set of complaints, ascribing the updated design to some sort of conspiratorial agenda against traditional femininity.
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Some Latin American pundits believe so, ascribing it partly to the conditions in which players like Suarez, Maradona, and Neymar grew up in.
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I'm still holding on to the positivity I feel about the majority of my experience there and ascribing no malice to the delay.
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It's saying all of this supposedly about Wall, but really ascribing to him tired stereotypes that have been used to smear black men.
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"The market is likely only ascribing approximately $1 billion - $3 billion of value to Family Dollar based on the current stock price," Smith said.
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It seemed as if every political commentator put out a book ascribing South Africa's dysfunctions—from its power outages to its corruption—to Zuma.
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However, Sasha Dall, a behavioral ecologist at Britain's University of Exeter warned of the dangers of anthropomorphism - or ascribing human characteristics to other species.
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However, Sasha Dall, a behavioral ecologist at Britain's University of Exeter warned of the dangers of anthropomorphism - or ascribing human characteristics to other species.
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Markets are ascribing a 31 percent chance of an RBNZ rate cut this week, and are almost fully priced for a reduction in August.
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Reasonable people can disagree, but they can also give those they disagree with the benefit of the doubt rather than ascribing terrible intentions to them.
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Ascribing postmodernism to this archetypal Romantic feels too easy, too much a slick rationalization, but Cohen had a shtick and he performed it with distance.
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CARNEY ON NO-DEAL BREXIT The path of interest rates, in the markets judgment, is lower because they are ascribing some possibility to no-deal.
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That involves tapping the "tag faces" option in the mobile app and ascribing identities to various people the camera picks up on its video feed.
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Some who want an immigration overhaul are hopeful about their prospects in the next Congress, even ascribing some credit to an unlikely source: Mr. Trump.
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CARNEY ON NO-DEAL BREXIT The path of interest rates, in the markets judgment, is lower because they are ascribing some possibility to no-deal.
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When it came to my choices, I tried to be somewhat unpredictable, to prevent anyone from ascribing any sort of message to what I wore.
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Enhancing long-term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims.
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While I'm not ascribing gender roles, it's safe to say my wife and I both feel somewhat uncomfortable that the situation is reversed in our case.
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Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims.
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As a few examples, the United Methodist Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Presbyterian Church in America, and Pentecostals all include official language ascribing immorality to queerness.
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The view of women as modified men "continues the overused trope that female bodies are unnatural or abnormal, thereby ascribing normality only on male bodies," says Bonaparte.
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Kennedy suggested that individuals could have the right to be free from the government evaluating their political attitudes and ascribing to them views they do not hold.
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"The market is not ascribing a large probability to a high volatility scenario over the election period," said Stewart Warther, an equity derivatives strategist at BNP Paribas.
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I'm not ascribing prophetic powers to him, but at a few points in Lomax's career he did make some prescient calls, and this is one of them.
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That affirmed the prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity, ascribing gravity to a warp in the geometry of space-time, that gravity could bend light beams.
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The feature of the social-credit system that has attracted the most attention and alarm is the notion of ascribing "credit scores" (points) to social and political activity.
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"I don't really think that the company and, quite frankly, investors are ascribing much of the value of Amazon to what they're doing in China," Chukumba told CNBC.
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We invest these categories with too much meaning, often ascribing to generational ideology what is more likely a product of age, wealth and a variety of other factors.
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"Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims," Flake added.
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I wonder if, because she wants to believe that Leonard is part of the roughly 20 percent of people who are misdiagnosed, she's ascribing meaning to random movements.
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A wide variety of factors can influence exchange rates, including government purchases of currency or central bank moves, and labeling a country a currency manipulator involves ascribing intent.
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Honestly, what better way is there to celebrate nature's bounty than by ascribing wildly inappropriate value to its (literal) fruits, and then handing them out Robin Hood-style?
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"The market is currently ascribing around a 60 percent chance that the U.S. Fed will hike rates by the July meeting," said Tapas Strickland, economist at National Australia Bank.
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Meanwhile, digital currency critic David Gerard is ascribing bitcoin's recent run to trading moves by big holders of the digital currency who are putting the squeeze on short sellers.
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" "Not ascribing to traditional models of healing such as gentleness and self-love has allowed me to be very raw and aggressive in my recounting of abuse through art.
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"I have come up with some pretty good names for people," Trump said, referencing his penchant for ascribing ridiculous (though often catchy!) nicknames to rivals along the campaign trail.
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The problem here — which is the kindest thing one cans say about the situation — is that Thiel is ascribing moral equivalency to Trump when set against Clinton, his opponent.
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We tend to overthink things when it comes to Trump, ascribing his various hirings, firings and other machinations as part of some grand plan that only he can understand.
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I can interpret his behavior however I want, ascribing intention when he brings me his toys during a stressful phone call or silently rests his head on my knee.
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LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Bitcoin fell more than 8% on Wednesday, plumbing to a five-day low, with traders and analysts ascribing the losses to technical trading in thin liquidity.
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Jacob Turner, a specialist in international law, suggests ascribing legal personhood to AI will then be necessary if those harmed by such advanced agents are to seek compensation and justice.
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But ascribing all of the weight to economic and structural problems and assigning to the government the primary responsibility for curing them is both analytically false and certain to fail.
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I am grateful that Mr. Rosenstein wants to keep his job, but he should not do so by ascribing qualities and abilities to the president that he does not have.
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Britain - a close ally of Washington but wary nevertheless of its hardline Iran policy - stopped short of ascribing blame but described the assault as a "wanton violation of international law".
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The Congressional Black Caucus Women — who most recently signed a letter demanding an apology from White House Chief of Staff John Kelly for his role in ascribing statements to Florida Rep.
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The number did drop to 28503 percent in 22019, but rose again in each of the next few years, so ascribing causality to the tax cut is, at best, risky business.
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Ascribing all of the movement in polls during the debates to the debates themselves would of course be erroneous—polls have a tendency to bounce around even in the absence of debates.
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If she wins the caucuses, she could likely survive a Sanders victory in New Hampshire, ascribing such a result to him having his political base in the adjacent state of Vermont. Sen.
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From what you've told me, it seems you're ascribing a bit of moral high ground to your own spending habits compared to hers, and that won't get you anywhere productive relationship-wise.
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Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal nationwide, he has opposed members of his own party on a number of abortion measures, ascribing his reluctance to his Roman Catholic faith.
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There's serious danger in ascribing any sort of long-term strategy to Trump's tweets, but you can see him concocting a campaign issue here with a new focus on changing immigration laws.
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"By not trusting any company, ascribing to them sinister motives, that's raising eyebrows and is being perceived as unfair and potentially un-Republican," said Scheineson, who also lobbies for a flavored cigar company.
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This anthropomorphizing ranges from simply ascribing human emotions and desires to dogs (see "Lassie" or "Benji") to the inexplicable genre of dogs who excel at professional human sports ("Air Bud" and "Soccer Dog").
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In that earlier exchange, Roberts defended the federal judiciary after a series of statements from Trump slamming federal judges and ascribing their rulings to the partisan affiliations of the presidents who appointed them.
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By 224, Mr. Anderson was ascribing to the ideology of the Black Hebrew Israelites, an extremist sect that thinks of its members as true Israelites, believes Jews are impostors and espouses anti-Semitism.
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Provided the data show big trends, that is generally good enough; analysts should be wary of ascribing too much significance to small changes that could just be the result of measurement errors and noise.
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But I also encourage you to think critically, fight the forces of pseudoscience and fake news that have permeated popular culture, and think before sharing an article ascribing wacky names to the lunar phases.
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I hope this article is universally panned as a sportswriter panicking about the random fluctuations and coin flips of sports all coming up "BORING" one after another and ascribing meaning to those coin flips.
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"Del Nero was actually running things," a lawyer for Mr. Marin said in court on Thursday, ascribing to Mr. Del Nero the bribe deals that cooperating witnesses testified they had struck with Brazilian officials.
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The 8 percent drop in ratings between 2015 and 2016 amounted to about 1.4 million fewer people watching each N.F.L. game on average, though ascribing a single motivation to that many people is folly.
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Lindenauer argues that the 18th-century popular imagination took the same terrible attributes that the Puritans had ascribed to witches — malice, selfishness, coldness, absence of maternal impulse — and started ascribing them to stepmothers instead.
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Finally, if Trump is disciplined enough to stay quiet and prosecutors have to make a case against him based upon splitting hairs and ascribing a basis for his actions, the case will go nowhere.
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From the distance of history, we can tend to forget this, ascribing a kind of triumphalism to the end of the war and fooling ourselves into thinking that the "good guys" will always win.
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"The complication we have at the moment is ascribing a value in, let's say June 2020, to 0.5 percent [sulfur] product," Vitol Group chief executive Russell Hardy, speaking at the Reuters Global Commodities Summit, said.
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While Karyn Malinowski, professor and director of the Rutgers University Equine Science Center in New Jersey, discouraged the practice of ascribing human emotions to animals, she said the new study's findings made sense to her.
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At best, astrology gives people a sense of control in a chaotic world and helps them relate to others by ascribing personality traits and life's seeming randomness to star signs and the movements of planets.
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"It's frustrating to see doctors and the general public stigmatize patients with obesity and blame these patients, ascribing attributes of laziness or lack of willpower," Dr. Donna Ryan, an obesity researcher, told The New York Times.
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The underlying message in these slideshows and media at large is that a fat woman ascribing to the minimalist/androgynous look doesn't carry the same amount of cool as a thinner woman wearing the same clothes.
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"I think if you start ascribing a moral intent as it were to someone by saying that they've lied, I think you run the risk that you look like you are not being objective," he added.
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I saw him a few more times before I went away for a summer internship, and I spent that summer apart ascribing more meaning to our courtship than was healthy for a man of my age.
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Conservatives might always deny and fight about the fact that humans caused that sea level rise, but adaptation to storms and flooding is far less controversial that ascribing blame to humans and acting to prevent it.
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Other EU officials, when speaking on condition of anonymity, were also less diplomatic, ascribing the timing of the proposals to Macron's desire to boost his popularity ratings in France before the European Parliament elections in May.
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" Mr. McConnell called the Senate to order under what is known as Rule XIX, which prohibits debating senators from ascribing "to another senator or to other senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator.
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Trump's failure to do more to point out that the worshipers who died in Christchurch were Muslim represents a double standard, given that he has been much clearer in ascribing a religious motivation to other killings.
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Carville is the most skilled practitioner of a hobby common to his social and political stratum: ascribing to "the working class"—or simply "voters"—a resistance to any kind of change that inconveniences people like James Carville.
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For instance, Boswall views ascribing human qualities to animals as deception; so, too, is incidental music, sound effects (such as the ones used in The Hunt), and making animals behave in a way they ordinarily do not.
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Other party establishment figures and groups, similarly seeking to place and avoid blame, will surely return fire (and then some), ascribing the mess to a combination of missteps by electoral neophytes and overwhelmed state and national operatives.
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I suspect I'm less charitable than you in terms of ascribing justifiable motives to some of these Trump voters, but I absolutely take your larger point that this is complex and we should avoid reducing people to caricatures.
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Pointing fingers and ascribing malice in the wake of the aborted attempt last week to pass the American Health Care Act may be emotionally satisfying, but it is not constructive in the long run to effective team building.
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ISIS even executed 422 of its own members for offenses such as trying to defect, spying for foreign counties and acts of "extremism" against Islam, such as ascribing divine characteristics to Islamic figures or another person, SOHR said.
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The Fed is expected to raise rates for the ninth time this cycle on Wednesday, although money market traders aren't as sure as they were a few weeks ago, ascribing only a 73 percent probability to an increase.
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Like, she's trying to criticize this system, but based on her whole point about only sleeping with people whom she considers marriage material, she's still ascribing to a lot of the tenets that she's also pushing back against.
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"The market is currently ascribing around a 60 percent chance that the U.S. Fed will hike rates by the July meeting, and NAB has pencilled-in a July rate hike," said Tapas Strickland, economist at National Australia Bank.
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Over the course of months, he wrote, countless physicians, hospitals and rehab facilities missed the spinal cord damage that left him quadriplegic — instead variously ascribing his inability to move to his mental illness, his medications or his will.
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LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitcoin tested 15-month highs on Monday after jumping more than 10% over the weekend, with analysts ascribing the spike to growing optimism over the adoption of cryptocurrencies after Facebook unveiled its Libra digital coin.
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Swedish-Australian model Kelly Gale was also in attendance, ascribing to the unspoken VS dress code of crop tops and black booties, giving hers a touch of New York attitude with a leather jacket and capri-length camo pants.
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Why it matters: Google has been thrown into the controversy over Silicon Valley's lack of diversity and sexist culture by an internal memo by a (now former) employee ascribing some of the tech industry's gender gap to biological differences.
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Ascribing genre to Since I Left You is like trying to describe how colors taste: it's a subjective exercise that, if you devote enough time to trying to pin it down, will leave you utterly exhausted by its impossibilities.
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I'm not ascribing a lot of brain wattage behind sort of the daily execution of that plan, but they have all the levers of government so they should be able to ... TV: That is the exact point right there.
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Three federal courts have agreed that the Justice Department's stated reason for seeking detailed citizenship data — to better enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act — is not credible, but have stopped short of ascribing a political motive to the decision.
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More recently, Eli Roth paid homage to this grandly disreputable filmmaking heritage with his grungy throwback The Green Inferno, while the recent Bone Tomahawk fused horror to the Western, both films ascribing savage-tribesmen qualities to a group of people-eaters.
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But that did not stop liberal media outlets from ascribing the views of an obscure Twitter account to conservatives across the country despite the complete lack of any evidence that there was widespread conservative "outrage" over a dancing college student.
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The damages awarded were based on the judge's estimate that she had lost out on three lead or co-lead roles, each worth at least A$6.2 million ($5 million), ascribing 20 percent of the lost earnings to Bauer Media's articles.
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For Bishop Harry Jackson, co-founder of the Reconciled Church — the main organizing body behind the event — and his colleagues, ascribing blame to any side in America's conflict is to neglect the saving power of Jesus Christ to heal all divides.
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Ascribing an equal weight to all of these types of content is kind of a surprisingly quaint way to handle user-generated content, it's also a great way for platforms to find engagement ceilings and the limits of what spam can become.
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Besides the fact that ascribing characteristics to a sexuality is dicey at best — though all queer people, of course, reserve the right to call anything queer as seen through their eyes — much of what they wore was just the fashion of the era.
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Analysts are most confident of ascribing influence when they see a superhuman burst of bot activity followed by a deeper but more leisurely spread deemed to be "organic" (both in the sense of proceeding naturally and being done by flesh not circuits).
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Even so, the long history of what might be called Disney-fied nature programming -- even that shot using actual footage -- has regularly included ascribing human qualities to animals, built around the notion that they are a lot like us, only faster and furrier.
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In this, young blacks are not so different from their ancestors, complicating the whole notion of generational change that we are used to ascribing to non-black people, in which a particular cohort is perceived as being fundamentally different from its predecessors.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There was a significant rise in reports of sexual exploitation and abuse involving United Nations staff and affiliates last year, the U.N. said in a report on Monday, ascribing the increase largely to an improved atmosphere and oversight.
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In that latter sense, conspiracy theories serve the same basic adaptive needs as evolutionary psychologists argue for religion: ascribing a single source or agency as the cause of events reduces anxiety (and therefore increases functionality), regardless of how factual the account might be.
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What Americans have forgotten is that white supremacy has historically sought not only the denigration of African-Americans and Jews but also of Catholics — and among them Hispanics — ascribing to the latter all manner of harmful stereotypes as brutal criminals and sexual predators.
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I am ascribing causation and intent to the events in the video because I've read the synopsis on the exhibition's web page, but as I sat in the gallery watching and re-watching "Milk Tooth," the inner logic of its narrative often escaped me.
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"The nail industry was never my passion, but I was always interested in customer service and retail," says Lin who was running a and operating traditional nail salons before she realized her clients were increasingly ascribing more and more meaning to doing their nails.
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Alas, even that is ascribing too much coherence to the worldview outlined by Mr Trump at the UN. Where it suited him, he sounded like a traditional Republican president, as when he scolded the Iranians for locking up political opponents or censoring the internet.
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It's a fool's errand to search for method in Donald Trump's campaign tactics, but if you were tasked with ascribing method to his behavior in recent weeks, you'd have to conclude his aim is to further divide his own party and unite the opposition.
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"It is necessary to consider the seed and the soil," he wrote, ascribing the potency of a prediction to its "sense of inevitability," the personality of the person who receives it, and the way it interacts with our deepest beliefs about illness and death.
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For most of us who fall prey to ascribing to that bullshit on a bad day—all of us really—the growing number of pop-culture narratives remind us that we can be far better, and more dope than we ever imagined ourselves to be.
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Saying the CBO could "kill" a provision is perhaps ascribing too much agency to an organization that views itself as an impartial arbiter and does not make any of its cost estimation decisions based on a desire to kill or promote a given bill.
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Three, I'll take the liberty of ascribing to Macron this unstated thought: His euro area reform program would also make it impossible for Germany to boss people around; the administrative setup he proposes would unfailingly and routinely enforce the rules of the monetary and fiscal union.
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So I proceeded as one does these days: tsk-tsking various columns of yours, occasionally snarking about you on Twitter, and ascribing to the belief that The New York Times's decision to hire you was most likely bad for America and the future of liberal democracy.
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In updating the traditional assumption of the artist's genius and virtuosity, he has raised the stakes, so to speak, in ascribing to Soutine religious and spiritual powers that seem to transcend earlier beliefs of pagan magic, notions that would be regarded as absurd within the still positivist interwar worldview.
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Ascribing some kind of political motive for one of his outbursts is too generous at this point—when he goes nuts, whether about the Russia probe (as he did on Sunday and again on Monday) or a foreign adversary, he's probably not doing it because he has a plan.
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It burdens juries with the insuperable task of determining what constitutes "intimidation" without relying on the viewpoint of the speaker (when in the case of white supremacists, it is usually the viewpoint itself that proves to be most intimidating), or inadvertently ascribing another, separate crime to the accused.
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This is about, however, having a proper balance in our relationship with them which is growing increasingly unbalanced, frankly, because we have made the mistake as policy makers in this city for a long time of ascribing to the Chinese government and the Chinese system attributes of our own system.
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What emerges is a portrait of the artist at odds with society, a nomad in the truest sense, averse to the art market, yet accepting of it at the same time, an "official" stooge, an "unofficial" bum, a poignant commentator on social conditions — whether capitalism or communism — while actually ascribing to neither.
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London (CNN)Almost two years after President Trump's victory in the 2016 election, and just weeks away from the midterms, comedy legends Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart laid bare their thoughts on the state of their nation, and warned against ascribing racial or class divisions purely to President Trump's election, or Russian meddling.
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And just when you thought all that might represent a nadir in terms of ugly and depraved presidential rhetoric, on Thursday Trump said the Puerto Rican hurricane death toll was a Democratic plot, or something: As usual, ascribing precise meaning onto Trump's tweets is like trying to climb a greased-up pole.
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"It's frustrating to see doctors and the general public stigmatize patients with obesity and blame these patients, ascribing attributes of laziness or lack of willpower," said Dr. Donna Ryan, an obesity researcher and professor emerita at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., who was not involved with the study.
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Though Pielke is careful about ascribing direct causation, he notes that the biggest drops occurred after the 2300 suicide of Hall of Fame linebacker Junior Seau (who was later found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head) and the release of the movie "Concussion" in 217.
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Ascribing various mental states to different kinds of alcohol is an old excuse that's been around forever: Some say it was the whiskey that made them throw their drink at a fellow patron, or that there's no way they would have gone home with that coworker if it weren't for that second glass of pinot.
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The world of beverages remains full of gender norms—apparently it remains a thing to request, uh, a "man cup" so you can still look like a tough guy while sipping a cocktail, and the worlds of beer, wine, coffee, and cocktails all have long and storied histories of ascribing gender to inanimate objects.
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Trump trained intense criticism on his likely Democratic opponent, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, ascribing many of the nation's ills to policies implemented by her and her powerful contemporaries.
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After Trump issued his initial travel ban, Flake called the order "unacceptable" amid concerns that it would prevent legal permanent residents from entering the U.S. "Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims," Flake said in a statement in January.
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As U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Albert Gallatin's name may not be as infamous; however, the credulity of Lewis and Clark ascribing it to this "new land" has been greatly diminished by the 2014 scientific breakthrough in which the 12,000 year-old remains of the child found in a gravesite just north of Bozeman in 1968 was genetically matched to present-day Native Americans.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has shown an uncanny ability to "project" issues onto his perceived foes — ascribing to them his own troublesome actions, especially when he tries to deflect bad news.
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Never his finest craftsmanship, the slur returned to the fore in November when Mr. Trump could not resist sharing his work during an Oval Office ceremony with three Navajo code talkers, who helped Marines send coded messages during World War II. "They call her Pocahontas," Mr. Trump said of the Democratic Massachusetts senator, deploying a common strategy for borderline monikers: ascribing authorship to the masses.
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This is why the Obama administration apparently has chosen not to respond in a timely manner to Iran's recent military provocations — including, a ballistic missile test and a live-fire exercise near a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz — ascribing such moves as attempts by Iranian hardliners to scuttle — or at least delay until after the elections — the nuclear agreement's implementation and connected sanctions relief.
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Nothing compared to the wallop of Kara Walker's magisterial return to Sikkema Jenkins with a new chapter of her racist fantasia on national themes, to Sanford Biggers's chilling target practice with African sculptures at Marianne Boesky, or even to Mounir Fatmi's letter, printed on the wall at Jane Lombard, ascribing his absence from his own exhibition to the fact that, as a Moroccan Muslim artist, he'd anticipated humiliating discrimination at the hands of US customs agents.
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