Extenuating-circumstances Sentence Examples

No evidence was presented to suggest cause or extenuating circumstances.

In these Orestes is the guilt-laden mortal who is purified from his sin by the grace of the gods, whose merciful justice is shown to all persons whose crime is mitigated by extenuating circumstances.

This part of Henrys policy is connected with the name of his two extortionate fiscal judges Empson and Dudley, who turned law and justice into rapine by their minute inquisition into all technical breaches of legality, and the nice fashion in which they adapted the fine to the wealth of the misdemeanant, without any reference to his moral guilt or any regard for extenuating circumstances.

The following rules typically apply, but there may be extenuating circumstances in which the laws become more flexible.

The individual is generally homebound as a result of frailty, illness, or extenuating circumstances.

People with recent foreclosures may be considered if they can prove extenuating circumstances caused the foreclosure.

For example, some doctors and clinics specialize in seeing more patients who are having trouble conceiving or have extenuating circumstances.

Adopters must keep their new pets for life or return them to the shelter if extenuating circumstances occur.

A promise ring relating to marriage usually indicates that the wedding is several years away, often because one or both members of the couple are too young to legally wed, or there may be other extenuating circumstances.

Most party planners suggest estimating around 80 percent attendance (unless you know of extenuating circumstances that would affect a large group).

After all, he was a wayward man of the cloth and she did peddle her butt for bucks, whatever the extenuating circumstances.

On these three considerations alone is based the conception of irresponsibility for crimes and the extenuating circumstances admitted by all legislative codes.

Finally, keep in mind that there may be extenuating circumstances in your baby's life that can interrupt her sleeping through the night.

Would Chapman would have allowed one of his "busts" the same courtesy if there was extenuating circumstances surrounding that person's arrest?