The pathologist who examined the body attributed the cause of death to alcohol toxicity.

They were horrified then when the interior-ministry spokesman held the press conference in which he cited their report, attributing the cause of death to hitting the lever of the sunroof.

In such a verdict the circumstances of a death are recorded without attributing the cause to a named individual.

Preliminary reports attributed the cause of the explosion to a test of the plant's energy systems.

Before that discovery, doctors attributed the cause of many epidemics to what they called miasmas floating in the air.