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With everything pointing to the long haul, the actual results might be difficult to ascertain.
A team from the air accident investigation unit is still trying to ascertain the cause of the crash.
A fire investigation team will try to ascertain the exact cause but it is thought to have been an electrical fault.
As you know, it is normally the job of the surveyor scouts to go down to the surface and study the planet to ascertain is inhabitability.
As a result there are no references to ascertain the authenticity of many works.
Efforts to ascertain concrete information are met with bland replies and you come away none the wiser.
Much effort has been expended in attempting to ascertain a precise antecedent to the trust in other laws.
A second objective was to attempt to ascertain the limits to survival in terms of loss of conductivity.
It would be appreciated if you would ascertain this information in a timely manner.
There's an awkward pause as we try to ascertain the seriousness of the situation.
For this reason, the ancient physiognomists looked at the study of the eyes as a fundamental task to ascertain or describe a person's character.
We determined the phylogenetic position of this strain within the genus Wolbachia to ascertain its nearest relatives.
A post-mortem examination was inconclusive and further tests are being carried out to ascertain the exact cause of death.
That is not our belief, but we are checking the various permissions to ascertain the true position.
Human beings seek to ascertain their place in the pecking order and then ascend.
Those presented might then be put to the ordeal to ascertain their guilt or innocence.
The swords are measured to ascertain that they are of equal length, and in no case must a sword with a sharp edge or a notch be allowed.
The biographer resolved to ascertain whether George really did wear boots and spurs, and smoke Virginian in a short pipe.
Careful examination of serial sections failed to ascertain the presence of true meristematic cells in these atrophied buds.
We sat stoically as the news dribbled in, mixed with confusing and contradictory reports as the newsmen attempted to ascertain the facts.
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He then proceeded to ascertain the effect of substances previously comminuted.
First we ought to ascertain the will of Heaven whether it be advisable to make him our friend.
Chipping it with an adze, and boring it with an augur, to ascertain its quality.
This simile to Nonconformity also holds good a little when we seek to ascertain the ambit of Richardson's popularity.
From what I have been able to ascertain I judge that it was first written for use on the Ark.
A series of experiments to attempt to decompose hydrofluoric acid, and to ascertain the constitution of the fluoric combinations.
A special messenger was sent out from England with a frigate to ascertain his fate.
Before a battle those people consulted their game fowl to ascertain whether or not victory was about to attend their arms.
You, sweet dove, pure and guideless, you have taught me what I could not ascertain in twenty years' application.
Further, if Marten hums and haws about the amount, ascertain what sum will satisfy him.
Mertz boiled the hypsometer when necessary to ascertain our elevation above sea-level.
It would be a curious subject for the statist to ascertain when the French drummer is perfect in his art.
No perfect skeletons from which we can ascertain their statures remain to us.
He dispatched a galley with thirty oars along the shore, up the Gulf of Issus, to ascertain the truth.
We don't know who was in the boat, though if we were in Jacksonville, we could easily ascertain.
Mouldings are often the surest guides in helping us to ascertain the date of a building.
From the synchronistic tablets we can ascertain that he had to undergo severe struggles with the Babylonians.
Or would you ascertain whether he is licentious by putting your wife or daughter into his hands?
We have therefore, so to speak, a living fossil before us, and it would be of great interest to ascertain its history.
In giving this verdict it was absolutely necessary to ascertain to the fullest extent the time-keeping qualities of the exhibits.
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