Sentence examples for or ascertain from inspiring English sources

His court-appointed lawyer told Ms. Gauthier that even he was unable to contact him or ascertain from officials exactly where he was being held.

Judge Hellerstein said that he would wait to rule on the other witnesses for whom the government was still objecting until further efforts were made to track them down or ascertain that they had died.

It is plainly impossible for human beings ever to occupy a position from which they could observe simultaneously both their language (thought) and the mind-independent world and establish (or ascertain) the connection.

They train to shoot while seated, to stand and shoot, to kneel and shoot, to shoot from around bulkheads, to pirouette and shoot behind them, to "check their six," or ascertain that when there is a disturbance in front of them there is not something else going on behind them.

"Federal law expressly requires your agency to respond to state inquiries seeking to verify or ascertain the citizenship or immigration status of any individual within its jurisdiction for any purpose authorized by law," Mr. Detzner wrote on Thursday to Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary.

In no way was anyone allowed on the demo site to take or ascertain a person's information without explicit consent and without it being done from that specific user/individual's identified phone.

"By spiritual or non-secular I mean a belief system which goes beyond that which can be perceived by the senses or ascertained by the application of science.

Scientology, he claimed, must be a religion because it was "a belief system which goes beyond that which can be perceived by the senses or ascertained by the application of science.

In most cases, the accurate value of the surface roughness coefficient is not readily available or ascertained.

Analytical data can be used for the classification of water for utilitarian purposes, solving problems of saline water intrusion or ascertaining various factors on which the chemical characteristics of water depend.

Study Design: Nuchal thickness, humerus and femur lengths, hyperechoic bowel, hypoplastic fifth digit (clinodactyly), and any gross anatomic defects were measured or ascertained in singleton pregnancies that were undergoing genetic amniocentesis.