Sentence examples for first ascertains from inspiring English sources

Beliefs regarding climate change and its causes are often measured through a two-stage question set that first ascertains beliefs about whether the phenomenon is occurring, and second establishes beliefs about attribution (e.g., Leiserowitz et al., 2009, 2011).

Equally ruthless is her sendup of overachieving New York women in feral pursuit of have-it-all motherhood without having first ascertained if they even like children.

1. Monopoly Power The threshold element of a Section 2 monopolization offense being "the possession of monopoly power in the relevant market," the court must first ascertain the boundaries of the commercial activity that can be termed the "relevant market".

She noted that the board should first ascertain whether physical or mental illness, or the shareholder's age, interferes with his ability to remedy the unsafe conditions without assistance.

So how can you avoid the latter? 1. Know your audience It's pointless investing time or money in developing your brand without first ascertaining what will resonate with your audience, and to understand your customer's habits, wants and needs it is essential to talk to them, says Matthew Crole Rees, head of marketing at carfused.com, a brand offshoot for confused.com.

In 2014, I initiated a Change.org petition calling on the Obama administration to address the FGM problem in the US by first ascertaining the prevalence of FGM here and then devise a national plan to end the practice and provide services to FGM survivors.

"It is a cardinal principle" of statutory interpretation, however, that when an act of Congress raises "a serious doubt" as to its constitutionality, "this court will first ascertain whether a construction of the statute is fairly possible by which the question may be avoided".

Investigation of SBS requires first ascertaining whether the complaints are actually due to poor IAQ; if so, the investigation will gather information about the building's ventilation, heating and air conditioning system, possible sources of internal contaminants, and possible pathways for exterior pollutants to enter the building.

Optimum collector configurations were first ascertained by FEA modelling.

To justify our hypothesis, we first ascertained increased levels of S100B in post-mortem tissue samples from WNV patients.

Accuracy of the theoretical formulations and the solution method is first ascertained by comparing the results with that already available in the literature.