Sentence examples for ascertain not from inspiring English sources

The people working there utilised a database into which they could plug in the name of any Colorado voter and ascertain not just their political leanings but their personality traits, enabling them to micro-target advertising.

Meeting a man who one could imagine was wearing a brown coat and carrying a clipboard, Punt learned that the combined power of a local oscillator and spectrum analyser could ascertain not only what channel you were watching but whether you were watching it with your legs crossed.

Throughout its opinion, the court repeatedly stressed that it would not be bound by "technical statutory requirements," but would use its "equitable powers," to be guided by "the will of the people," "to reach the result that reflects the will of the voters," and to ascertain not the meaning of a statute but the "will of the electors".

Certainly in Glasgow's case the surprise is that it has taken so long to recognise the anti-war stance of figures who later became almost mythical as the founders of Red Clydeside; so far as the Jimmy Reid Foundation can ascertain, not a single commemoration of those who opposed the war exists anywhere in Scotland.

Subsequent harmonic balance analyses ascertain not only these two sustained oscillations, but also two other unstable limit cycles.

Practical reason, according to the vision, can ascertain not merely the means to achieve one's ends, but also the very telos or end for human beings.

However, a better understanding of the biological effects of these molecules must be ascertained, not least to identify any undesired secondary effects, such as tumorigenesis.

Females in reproductive age were ascertained not to be pregnant and informed to use effective contraceptive methods, if applicable.

Second, it should be remembered that this is an observational study and that only the associations between target and outcome can be ascertained, not cause and effect.

First, we were unable to ascertain contraceptives not listed on the PBS, including copper IUDs, the vaginal ring and 'new generation' OC containing drospirenone.

Moreover, it was also necessary to review death files to ascertain cases not previously brought to medical attention.