The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known. Bob Woodward
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. Bertrand Russell
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. Charles Cooley
The contrast between Tolstoy's discretion and Dostoevsky's exhibitionism, between the restraint of the one and the ‘dancing about naked in public' of the other-as someone says in The Possessed-is attributable to the same social gap as separated Voltaire from Rousseau. Arnold Hauser
Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology. Gro Harlem Brundtland