'The exercise of ascertaining the facts was a serious one".
Dido showed signs of ascertaining her uniqueness during her performance Monday night at Roseland.
The board was given the responsibility of ascertaining the pay anomalies arising from the government's counter-inflation policy.
Going forward, law enforcement agencies will have to devise better ways of ascertaining whether someone arrested is a foreign national and of notifying the appropriate consular officials.
In the meantime, the old ABC of detection – "assume nothing, believe nobody, challenge everything" – remains the surest way of ascertaining the truth.
Fiqh, (Arabic: "understanding"), Muslim jurisprudence; i.e., the science of ascertaining the precise terms of the Sharīʿah, or Islamic law.
"We are in the process of ascertaining other damages incurred by our hosting centres, after which we will present a final claim amount.
The parade of publishers who came courting had the delicate task of ascertaining if Mrs. Clinton would deliver the goods on how she really felt about Monica Lewinsky.
The difficulty of ascertaining the objective worth of women's work, in this interpretation, is further complicated by issues of status and class.
Last week he announced that hospitals may start receiving Ofsted-style inspections as an extra way of ascertaining how they are performing in key areas.
Lord Saville chose to go down the route of ascertaining whether victim A was killed by a bullet fired from the rifle of paratrooper X.
