Sentence examples for a mitigating circumstance from inspiring English sources

The Falcons are 1-2, but can cite their extremely challenging early season schedule as a mitigating circumstance.

To avoid public embarrassment of the Under-Secretary, they'd accepted Horst's sexual predation as a mitigating circumstance and contented themselves with scaring the daylights out of Annagret.

But the Swiss Federal Criminal Court approved a plea bargain, citing the defendants' cooperation with the C.I.A. as a mitigating circumstance.

"Are we going to look at that as a mitigating circumstance, or are we going to have to change our culpability standards completely?" she asked.

Add the four missed here and, at some stage, misfortune has to be discounted as a mitigating circumstance for his lack of plunder.

Couch's original "affluenza" defense certainly provided an opportunity for outrage: as Time magazine noted in debunking it as pseudo-science, "This is perhaps the first time having too easy a life has been considered a mitigating circumstance".

"It is always good to let the university know early on that you are unwell and to find out, for example, what evidence may be needed for a mitigating circumstances application," she says.

The absence of the mercurial Greek forward for the first leg was a strong mitigating circumstance as the hosts toiled in front of goal.

Real Madrid-Malmo FF: Possession 59%-41 59%-41pts 31-4 Attempts on target 15-1 There were a few mitigating circumstances for Malmo.

If it seems sad for the 1991 champion to bow out this way – having made only one Augusta cut since 2001 – there is the seriously mitigating circumstance of a long-term back problem.

In that case, there was at least the mitigating circumstance that Khan was a Pakistani citizen and a national hero.