We presume it would not be doubted that if the complainants had been taxed on capital invested in the business, such taxation would not have been obnoxious to constitutional objection, but because they had no capital invested the tax was ascertained by reference to the amount of their commissions, which, when received, were no less their property than their capital would have been.
Those who are able but unwilling to work "must somehow support themselves" (JF 179; cf. PL 182n).. Disability payments to meet the needs of severely handicapped citizens who are permanently unable to work are not ascertained by reference to the difference principle for Rawls, but instead are to be determined by principles of assistance, which he leaves unspecified (PL 272n).
It is possible that Aboriginality as reported in the notification data or any of the linked databases may be inaccurate, and reported Aboriginality is likely to be ascertained by various methods, including through reference to previous medical records, or as an individual judgement based on a person's appearance.
The full truth was to be ascertained by bitter experience, after spending a year on the spot.
However, this needs to be ascertained by supplementary analyses.
The shape diversity of a particular conformer volume may be ascertained by clustering conformers of that volume with a certain shape diversity threshold (ST thresh ), which controls the "minimum" distance between any two clusters, and then by counting the number of reference shapes, each of which represents a cluster centroid and all conformers within ST thresh to the reference shape.
Analytical accuracy was ascertained by analyzing commercially available urine reference materials (Concha et al. 2010).
Compound identity was ascertained by GC/MS and retention times as compared to synthetic compounds [24].
The quality of the ligands in the final samples was ascertained by comparison of one-dimensional proton spectra of the samples to reference ligand spectra.
The present study was designed to ascertain, by reference to odds ratio estimates of relative risk by tumor size and histologic grade, whether this was more likely to be due to increased innate predisposition of dense parenchymal patterns to grade 3 tumors, or to dedifferentiation of cases missed at screening due to dense patterns.
