Muhammad bin Qasim's success has been partly ascribed to Dahir being an unpopular Hindu king ruling over a Buddhist majority who saw Chach of Alor and his kin as usurpers of the Rai Dynasty.

The designer's magnetism can be partly ascribed to his somewhat mysterious, Svengali-like persona: he is a man of few words, perhaps because he speaks so little English.

The failure to reduce smoking was partly ascribed to a naive understanding of the relation between knowledge and changes in behaviour as well as to the use of inappropriate teaching techniques.

This has been partly ascribed to the increase in the Muslim population, who do not drink alcohol.

This 9.8% growth (a low estimate) can be partly ascribed to the launch of production at a new Peugeot SA plant.

Daoism is a philosophy and later also developed into a religion based on the texts the Dao Te Ching (Dào Dé Jīng; ascribed to Laozi) and the Zhuangzi (partly ascribed to Zhuangzi).

The esteem in which "L'Atalante" is held by film makers can be ascribed partly to the way it vindicates art over commerce: when Vigo was dying after shooting "L'Atalante," the film was declared unreleaseable.

One was an unexpected $20 million shortage in the current budget, partly ascribed to huge losses in the city's health benefits fund because of underestimating benefits that the fund would have to pay.

His failure could partly ascribed to the split between the Kuomintang and Chinese New Party within the Pan-Blue Coalition in the election.

It is not pretended that these men suffered from any political grievances whatever, and their action is to be ascribed partly to a natural sympathy with their northern kinsmen, and partly to racial ambition and to personal dislike to their British neighbours.