1.   CBS attributed its demise to low ratings.

2.   Most attributed its demise to lack of faith in the freeway-building bureaucracy.

3.   Officials from Phycor and Medpartners were quick to attribute the demise to the cultural diversity that existed between the two companies.

4.   To attribute his demise to the deficit would be like blaming some last, bad defenses against the barbarians for the fall of the Roman Empire.