"assign" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- You assign motives to your superior officer.
- When asked about the attackers' goals, they assigned varied motives but often one that is consistent with their personal, social or political concerns.
- Let that man who shall purpose to assign motives to the actions of another, blush at his folly and forbear.
- And, he added, "We must conquer the temptation to assign bad motives to people who disagree with us."
- He did not assign evil motives, arguing instead that the repression was based upon certain erroneous assumptions: "Hispanics don't read and can't write, so why publish them?
- "I'm not assigning political motives," he said, but the seed was planted.
- And that fear bordered on suspicion of them, assigning motives to their actions which they didn't actually have.
- Separate the facts from your conclusions and don't assign motives.
- Various witnesses assigned motives according to their own fears.
- Patrick smiled ruefully; he was nineteen going on twenty - what right had he to assign motives to a woman?
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