Sentence examples for effort to ascertain from inspiring English sources

In an unsuccessful effort to ascertain at least which propositions are unsolvable, the English mathematician and logician Alan Turing rigorously defined the loosely understood concept of an algorithm.

This implies that someone has actually polled economists on the question, or counted pro and con arguments in the environmental-economics literature, or at least made some effort to ascertain what economists prefer.

If the links between Beijing and Pol Pot are censored at the Khmer Rouge trials; if there is no serious effort to ascertain the number of victims of the Cultural Revolution in China; if the archives of the Gulag or the war in Chechnya have still to be protected and sometimes concealed by the Russian authorities, what can we expect the attitude of these countries to be toward massacres to come?

Nucleotide sequences of pncA genes found within mycobacteria where aligned in an effort to ascertain the significance of any variability in sequence.

In an effort to ascertain more information about the impact situation, compression after impact tests are performed to determine the extent of the damage by observing the degradation of strength associated with the impact event.

As part of the effort to ascertain why young drivers are more at risk for car crashes, attention has recently turned to the effects of family, including the intergenerational transmission of driving styles from parents to offspring.

"Difficulty in obtaining the loan documents has presented a challenge to the enterprises' efforts" to ascertain whether losses at the companies are the responsibility of others, its press release said.

And given the detailed and carefully wrought statutory deadlines and the authority assigned to Florida's election officials, there is no basis for inferring that the Legislature intended courts to exercise equitable powers to change the rules in the midst of the state's efforts to ascertain and pronounce election results.

Mo Yun, who would have overseen efforts to ascertain the germplasm of any stolen seed lines in Beijing, allegedly participated from behind the scenes.

Concerted efforts to ascertain the representativeness of the data base were strongly encouraged.

Throughout 2014, we underwent further efforts to ascertain vital status of patients by contacting patients and families directly.