"We come here on this line every day trying to ascertain something that can assist us to get through the night".
Sometimes the commercials are fun, or funny, or just befuddling, but we're interested not just because we want to be entertained but because we think we can ascertain something about our popular culture by examining our million-dollar-a-minute advertisements.
There are varying forms of irony, but the easiest way to ascertain if something is ironic is to determine whether what actually happens differs from your expectations.
To walk through a landscape in pursuit of an idea, in the belief that I will learn something that I don't already know, that there is something in this vast expanse that cannot be ascertained from just a mental understanding of the thing.
From the rest of Twitter, which got very active at 10.31pm, I ascertained that the something is not nice.
But it's hoped that through public awareness, phoning in a sighting or doing so online, the MCS can be helped in ascertaining, in the UK at least, something closer to the true state of affairs, in order to help plan international measures to save the turtle; it's struggling not just in Gabon but increasingly in south-east Asia.
We were engrossed in trying to ascertain the origin of something on a skewer when I felt a faint brush against my shoulder bag and turned around to see a woman dart off into the crowd.
From tracking user behavior to ascertaining how long a particular step in the process is taking or whether something needs more attention, the resulting insights will inform and continually improve the content and the overall experience.
The researchers also found, while ascertaining mozzarella's special status, that using software to quantify the degree of blistering worked very well – something for pizza manufacturers to keep in mind in their continuing quest to improve their creations.
Her services were not confined merely to ascertaining the authenticity of the props something Hollywood studios were quite meticulous about but extended to working with the actors on their characterizations and with the director on the plot.
"We are currently ascertaining their nationalities," he added.
