Washington and Seoul must now ascertain whether the thaw is merely an opportunistic gambit by President Kim Il Jong to attract economic aid or a fundamental attempt to overcome the past.
New genetic tools have been developed and we can now ascertain the function of individual genes.
The notion that a multiple approach to chronic headache is a viaticum for the management success is by now ascertained.
I can easily ascertain, for instance, yesterday's closing number for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but by no efforts, however great, can I now ascertain tomorrow's close.
It is now ascertained that prostate cancer emerges from multiple spontaneous and/or inherited alterations that induce changes in expression patterns of genes and proteins that function in complex networks controlling critical cellular events.
It will be important now to ascertain exactly what happened in Madrid so that any such rumours can be quickly scotched.
To what extent Plato's life of Socrates keeps to strict biographical truth cannot now be ascertained (though the account of Socrates given by Plato's contemporary the soldier Xenophon, in his Memorabilia, suggests a reasonable faithfulness) and he does not offer a full-scale biography.
Other polymorphisms are awaiting further confirmation, whereas for some (POLG, DAZL, USP26, FSHR) a lack of association with abnormal spermatogenesis has now been ascertained.
The observations of Dall, Wenz, and Knight had suggested that the paired muscles of Tryblidium might be a primitive character state aligning monoplacophorans with chitons, but what about the rest of the anatomy that could now be ascertained from the newly discovered specimens?
