Sentence examples for cannot ascertain the from inspiring English sources

"We cannot ascertain the number of people killed for now, and moreover we cannot say what or who was responsible for the attack," Mr. Adenaike said.

But if we cannot ascertain the truth then then we cannot ascertain the degree of truthlikeness of our theories either.

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 are also happy to make clear that the public cannot ascertain the identity or location of a Whisper user unless the user publicly discloses this information, that the information Whisper shared with the US Department of Defense's Suicide Prevention Office did not include personal data, and that Whisper did not store data outside the United States.

Those who have been educated in countries very dissimilar to the host country may be considerably overeducated in their first job if employers cannot ascertain the value of the qualification.4 The subsequent employment record in the host country will signal true ability and will diminish overeducation, unless non-recognition of foreign qualifications creates permanent barriers.

"As required by law, D.H.S. must protect the best interests of minor children crossing our borders," an agency spokesperson told the Times, "and occasionally this results in separating children from an adult they are traveling with if we cannot ascertain the parental relationship, or if we think the child is otherwise in danger".

We don't have access to these areas, so we cannot ascertain at the moment the exact origin of these recruits.

However, since resolution of the breakpoint regions is limited by the density of synteny markers, we cannot ascertain whether the breakpoints are in the exact same position.

This point is well taken: we indeed do not know which stage of embryonic development is most sensitive to the thermal limits and also cannot ascertain whether the changes that we identified during the first cell cycle contribute to the observed lethality.

Given the cross-sectional design of the study, an obvious limitation is that we cannot ascertain whether the observed associations between the socio-economic resources and infant and young child feeding are causal.

From our data we cannot ascertain whether the defect observed for the L2 cysteine mutants comes from the lack of the C22 C28 disulfide structure or whether it is a consequence of a failed interaction/binding between the exposed RG-1 epitope and an unknown host receptor due to the replacement of cysteines with serines.