After my examination, Joe informed me about his psychic powers or, as he always referred to them, his gift: "I am the 11th child of the 11th daughter in an old Sicilian family and such a person is always blessed with the gift to foresee the future and ascertain the past of anyone he meets".
A second note to the prime minister, dated May 1988, said the committee had "some hesitation" about awarding the knighthood but "so far as we believe and have been able to ascertain, his past history or general character does not, in all the circumstances, render him unsuitable".
Demographic and professional determinants ascertained of past-month adverse drug reaction (ADR) suspicion and past-year ADR reporting.
The consequence is that the big question in European politics today is not, as in the past, to ascertain what Germany wants.
But there were two competing graphs – Mann's hockey stick and another, by Phil Jones, Keith Briffa and others, which sought to ascertain temperatures over the past millennium using, among other things, tree rings, ice cores and coral.
There have been attempts in the past to ascertain whether any part of the IGF axis (ligands, receptors, or binding proteins) could be used as a reliable biological marker for prostate cancer and prostate cancer metastases with controversial results [ 62, 63].
Therefore, he built up an extensive military library and studied the theory of warfare and analysed past campaigns to ascertain strategy and tactics for a given situation.
Dicker (2004: 201 2) remarks that we may be able to determine accurately the order some of our past states by means of such memories, but we cannot ascertain the order of most of our past experiences in this way.
"We often are unable to ascertain which meanings persons in the past held for the objects they created," Dr. Blakey, director of the Institute for Historical Biology at the College of William and Mary, wrote in an e-mail message.
However, he called the office to ascertain that she was there, walked past the guards, and killed her.
