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Synonyms for ascertain

to obtain knowledge or awareness of something not known before, as through observation or study

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Synonyms for ascertain

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

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learn or discover with certainty

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If he understands it at all, a comparativist understands a law-text differently from other comparativists (institutional socialization proving significantly and ascertainably pertinent to any act of understanding).
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459, 33, Lord Bingham of Cornhill said that there were two 'guiding principles' relevant in that case, namely [that]: 'no one should be punished under a law unless it is sufficiently clear and certain to enable him to know what conduct is forbidden before he does it; and no one should be punished for any act which was not clearly and ascertainably punishable when the act was done."
On request for extradition to United States of English executive allegedly involved in international price fixing conspiracy in carbon industry, House of Lords decides that one count failed to meet test of double criminality and that three others do meet that test but need further investigation into possible prejudice from delay
Thus, the rule's purposive interpretation would allow contraband enforcement even against an armed band not formally occupying territory if a weapons shipment is ascertainably destined for that band.
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But if and when we reach that ideal, we shall have needed to come to some different ways of ordering human behavior--perhaps a cultural capacity to accept more readily that the process of reaching decisions is often more important than the norms which may ascertainably precede the process.
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