Sandberg couldn't provide the straight answer being sought, she said, because "ads don't run with inorganic content on our service" — claiming: "There is actually no way to firmly ascertain how much ads are attached to how much organic content; it's not how it works".
Or they might be trying to ascertain how much suffering the plaintiff had experienced as a way to gauge the monetary compensation being sought.
There, over a couple of beers, marketers can run through the available ad space in, say, a newspaper, and ascertain how much an advertiser is willing to pay.
The group is moving into the quieter summer months, the spring selling season is usually bigger than the autumn one and it is difficult to ascertain how much of the first half demand was 'pent up' or sustainable.
Without access to his tax records, it is very difficult to verify the claims he has made about his finances, and it's impossible to ascertain how much he has paid in taxes.
The Committee's Chair Meg Hillier began by asking Google's Head of Europe, Matt Brittin, whether he shared the anger felt by her constituents, quickly followed by five tactless attempts to ascertain how much he earns.
So it is impossible to ascertain whether much of the alleged skewing occurred shortly after the CompStat system was started in 1995 under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, or whether it has continued or even worsened since Mr. Bloomberg took office in 2002.
By this he means that if a man wanted to ascertain how much roofing material he needed to do over the slanted roof of his house he would not take a ladder and climb up, he would use the theorem, which says, the sum of the squares on two sides of an isosceles right-angled triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse.
But for now, it's hard to ascertain how much runway the Series D investment gives 3DR, which is attempting a major metamorphosis.
Four models were tested to ascertain how much variation in growth was accounted for by size and soil parent material type.
