Word: ascertain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...liver. Someone opened the driver's door and Grubman "fell out of the car," said a witness. She fled in a friend's car. By the time patrol cars got to the friend's house, so had her lawyer. With her attorney running blocker, police could not even ascertain if Grubman had been driving the car, says Suffolk County district attorney James Catterson. "She was lawyered up, as we like to say." By the time police showed her photo to victims and identified her, he says, it was too late to test for alcohol...
...John Greenwald:Congress has oversight over the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Billy Tauzin wants to ascertain whether the NHTSA has been doing all it can to ensure the safety of the vehicles Americans are driving, including the Ford Explorer. And, of course, both Ford and Firestone blame the other for the vehicles' safety problems - and the some 200 deaths that have been linked to the cars. So this inquiry raises serious questions about both corporate accountability and national safety standards...
There is no gripping plot in Unbreakable. Rather, the movie appears to be more of an intellectual journey asking questions about what is possible. The believability of Dunn's survival and subsequent discoveries is not debated extensively, but instead is used as evidence to ascertain why such a survival is possible. The entire middle section of the movie is devoted to Dunn's deciding whether to believe Elijah's hypothesis about the accident. Shyamalan does an effective job of bringing the viewer along with the characters; the evidence Dunn considers and the conclusions he reaches are clear and seem logical...
Shames said that some people, when they called the local elections office so as to ascertain their polling place, were asked whether they were Republican or Democrat...
...timed to coincide with the release of the latest movie in the James Bond series, "The World Is Not Enough." Cheri Leberknight, the alleged American spy, was apparently carrying several gadgets that could have been designed by Q himself. She allegedly carried several tools to ascertain whether she was under surveillance. Dartboard actually owns a similar tool called a radar detector. On the other side of the iron curtain, the Russian successor to the Soviet KGB proudly trumpeted its counterintelligence prowess to a prime-time Russian television audience...