Sentence examples for ascertain the intent from inspiring English sources

The Legislature has given to the county canvassing boards -- and only these boards -- the authority to ascertain the intent of the voter.

Judge Burton, who was their witness, testified that they were able to identify 215 ballots where they could clearly ascertain the intent of the voters that had not been counted by the machines.

In Austin, Tex., Mr. Bush's spokeswoman, Karen P. Hughes, mocked the Florida vote-counters who "hold up ballots trying to see a glimmer of light, trying to ascertain the intent of a voter based on the tiniest pin prick".

We performed a series of tests of the pre-intervention surveys, first using paper questionnaires to ascertain the intent and clarity of the questions, then incorporating changes based on feedback from PCPs and patients, and we conducted additional testing in the online format to assess content and potential technical issues.

"Hence, the only accurate method of ascertaining the intent of the Founding Fathers at the time of our government's inception comes from a biblical worldview".

An uproar ensued, at which point I whipped out my BlackBerry and proposed I look up the origin of the dessert and ascertain the founders' original intent.

The law in these areas is uncertain enough that the Florida justices would have ground to reject the vice president's appeal even if they believe what his lawyers called "the undisputed evidence show[ing] that experts from both sides concluded that a manual review of contested ballots was necessary to ascertain the voter's intent".

From these models, it was possible to ascertain the overall amount of variability explained in suicidal intent by the model, which sets of variables added significantly to the prediction of suicidal intent as well as the relative importance of individual predictors.

The intent was to obtain a mathematical description of the macroscopic behaviour of the system rather than to ascertain the ultimate physical basis of the phenomena.

Occasionally, Emil made phone calls to ascertain the progress.

They do not get the facts; they "ascertain the data".