Sentence examples for means of ascertaining from inspiring English sources

Astrology was a means of ascertaining that meaning.

Whether anywhere in the room there be a mere thought, which is nobody's thought, we have no means of ascertaining, for we have no experience of its like.

The research evaluates a full factorial design as a means of ascertaining both the qualitative and quantitative effect of a given set of design variations.

Evidence, in law, any of the material items or assertions of fact that may be submitted to a competent tribunal as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it.

So that the surveyor general not only had the authority to determine the extent of the grant, as well as its validity, but he had the means of ascertaining it.

"It has always been the position of the F.A.A. that our traffic controllers at the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center had no knowledge of Korean Air Lines 007's departure from its flight-plan course and that they had no means of ascertaining that the flight had strayed from its assigned course," the statement said.

UPDATE (11 15PM) : Professor Wallace has added more detail to the methodology of paleographic dating: "Paleographers use a variety of means for ascertaining the dates of manuscripts," he writes in an email to me.

149, in which the buyer of a specific lot of goods accepted and used part of them with full means of previously ascertaining whether they conformed to the contract.

The art of the haruspices resembled in many respects that of the augurs; but they never acquired that political importance which the latter possessed, and were regarded rather as a means for ascertaining the will of the gods than as possessing any religious authority.

Privileges should be recognized "only to the very limited extent that permitting a refusal to testify or excluding relevant evidence has a public good transcending the normally predominant principle of utilizing all rational means for ascertaining truth". Trammel v. United States, 445 U.S. 40, 50 (1980) (citations omitted).

With or without the veil of ignorance we still have to use our very limited empirical means to ascertain which of various proposed public policies are better for the general welfare, and the veil of ignorance doesn't get you an iota closer to any answer.