There are varying forms of irony, but the easiest way to ascertain if something is ironic is to determine whether what actually happens differs from your expectations.
From the rest of Twitter, which got very active at 10.31pm, I ascertained that the something is not nice.
We were engrossed in trying to ascertain the origin of something on a skewer when I felt a faint brush against my shoulder bag and turned around to see a woman dart off into the crowd.
Obama's election is the acid test, pardon the expression, for what happens when we achieve something difficult to ascertain let alone accomplish.
It has already been incorporated into an app called Facemetrix, which can track a child's eyes to ascertain whether they are reading something on a phone or tablet or not.
An office or strategy for innovation in government (or government transformation) should be focused on culture change providing the room to "fail forward," to take risks and make (small) mistakes, to experiment, launch, and reiterate and once something works, to ascertain how it can be scaled.
With E4's Made in Chelsea on Monday, I used presenter Rick Edwards's 1,435-times 1,435-timesbseretweetedobservation toascertainr is pleased abouthatmething.
But it's hoped that through public awareness, phoning in a sighting or doing so online, the MCS can be helped in ascertaining, in the UK at least, something closer to the true state of affairs, in order to help plan international measures to save the turtle; it's struggling not just in Gabon but increasingly in south-east Asia.
In gamer speak, as far as I can ascertain, it means to try to shoot something while impersonating a rampaging Dr. Zoidberg.
