As reports flooded South Africa's news sites over the last week, it seemed as if editors' sympathies lay more with Pistorius than Steenkamp as theories about an "accidental shooting" were quickly offered well before the facts were ascertained.
"RIKEN takes this matter very seriously and considers it essential that the facts be ascertained.
Based on these facts, we ascertained that the cell stimulation could mediate a strong effect on cell proliferation and differentiation.
These indexes represent the non-ascertained individuals, who could have been diagnosed with T1D in the "ascertainment window", but who were in fact not ascertained to the DiMe sample.
In fact, we ascertained sublinear dependences with the slopes of 0.9 and 0.3 for I 1 and I 2 components, respectively.
At the inquest yesterday, the damaging fact was ascertained that only two of the cowboys were armed, it thus being a most unequal fight".
They do not get the facts; they "ascertain the data".
After Mr. Obama met with his national security staff on Wednesday, the White House issued a statement, slightly less assertive than the British one, saying that American intelligence agencies were still trying to "gather facts to ascertain what occurred".
"In coordination with international partners and mindful of the dozens of contemporaneous witness accounts and record of the symptoms of those killed, the U.S. intelligence community continues to gather facts to ascertain what occurred," it said in a statement.
