"But this is one of those trust-but-verify situations".
While the claim could not be verified, the situation in and around Kunduz clearly has worsened for the Taliban, after days of mass defections and intense American bombings.
Applicants who make it past the first cut have to provide up to 15 documents to verify their situations and their identities, including driver's licenses, utility bills and leases.
To use HOMA in critically ill patients in those glucose and insulin concentrations are not in a steady state and/or are receiving exogenous insulin has limitations because this method has not been verified in these situations and for this reason the interpretation of the results has to be made with caution.
There was no way to independently verify the situation.
Advanced users can verify the situation, by looking up the mail exchange (MX) records of the company in question.
The Guardian tried to contact nearly a dozen local security officials to verify the situation on the ground but was unable to reach any of them.
But TV Licensing officers may visit your address to "verify the situation", and while they won't disclose how they do it, they say they can tell if you've been watching live television.
More broadly, Ocha said that access restrictions and insecurity had prevented it from verifying the situation of 92,000 people of those reportedly displaced by recent fighting, including in the Jebel Marra mountains.
"We are verifying the situation with the partner and will inform you as soon as possible when download capabilities are resumed," it said in a statement on its official Weibo account.
The real subject of our discourse, in actual fact, was not the arguments being left behind but the contradictions those arguments would give rise to in the event of an attempt to verify the situation at home.
