Even after they were amended in response to another Supreme Court ruling on Guantánamo two years ago, the accused (and his lawyer) could still have been excluded from part of the hearings and prevented from ascertaining the full evidence against him.
The police said they were very busy ascertaining a motive.Really, it wasn't hard to spot one.
Mr Coloma said labour and fire officials were working together "in ascertaining if there had been violations of safety regulations, so that proper accountability may be established".Officials have made similar speeches after other deadly fires in Manila in years gone by.
Indeed, even ascertaining the current state of the economy is tricky.
The news that the second eruption should be easier to deal with, the reservoir's contents now being mostly toxic mud rather than water, was meagre compensation.A team of five EU toxicology and environmental experts has arrived in Hungary, and will spend the week ascertaining the precise extent of the damage to arable land, rivers and air quality.
The application was to admit sugar for agricultural purposes; the Government applied to Mr Howard, the accomplished chemist, brother to the late Duke of Norfolk, to try some experiments for the purpose of ascertaining if sugar could be so effectually adulterated that it could not be again converted for culinary uses.
As such, Socrates was interested in ascertaining the truth and promoting the pursuit of virtue, not in the self-importance or his own status.
Experimental petrology involves the laboratory synthesis of rocks for the purpose of ascertaining the physical and chemical conditions under which rock formation occurs.
A second attempt was made in 1712, when Jonathan Swift addressed an open letter to Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, then Lord Treasurer, making "A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining [fixing] the English Tongue".
Besides his books on agricultural subjects, he was the author of the famous Travels in France (or Travels During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Resources, and National Prosperity, of the Kingdom of France; 1792).
