However, I wish first to make a tour along the coast, to ascertain by my own observation what may be attempted.

The matter was to ascertain, by reconnoitering, how the enemy guarded this bastion.

If the parties take the latter route, the important thing is that it must be possible to ascertain the price by the method agreed upon.

I am trying to ascertain why hair can by dyed but nails can only be painted?

Legalism typically also claims that the task of the judge is to ascertain the answer to a legal question by an essentially mechanical process.

"The technology allows practitioners to see what we used to ascertain by experience and feel."

The analyses ascertained once and for all, the reality of interferon activity by chemical verification.

Hasan ascertained this by the sounds about him, since he never left the tent.

Further, we must ascertain by direct evidence, it Madame travelled with him to London.

An exact figure is hard to ascertain, partly due to a media clamp-down by the Libyan government.