Sometimes the commercials are fun, or funny, or just befuddling, but we're interested not just because we want to be entertained but because we think we can ascertain something about our popular culture by examining our million-dollar-a-minute advertisements.
There are varying forms of irony, but the easiest way to ascertain if something is ironic is to determine whether what actually happens differs from your expectations.
We were engrossed in trying to ascertain the origin of something on a skewer when I felt a faint brush against my shoulder bag and turned around to see a woman dart off into the crowd.
Obama's election is the acid test, pardon the expression, for what happens when we achieve something difficult to ascertain let alone accomplish.
It has already been incorporated into an app called Facemetrix, which can track a child's eyes to ascertain whether they are reading something on a phone or tablet or not.
An office or strategy for innovation in government (or government transformation) should be focused on culture change providing the room to "fail forward," to take risks and make (small) mistakes, to experiment, launch, and reiterate and once something works, to ascertain how it can be scaled.
With E4's Made in Chelsea on Monday, I used presenter Rick Edwards's 1,435-times 1,435-timesbseretweetedobservation toascertainr is pleased abouthatmething.
Due to the emotional importance attached to the product, the challenge was to ascertain that the reparation does not transform the chair into something unfamiliar.
We were particularly interested to ascertain if closed-loop therapy reduced time spent in hypoglycaemia, something which the two individual studies failed to detect because of their limited sample size and low background rates of nocturnal hypoglycaemia.
The Fed was trying to ascertain whether the tumult in the stock market could escalate into something worse.
