The phrase "alien circumstances" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe situations or conditions that are foreign, unusual, or unfamiliar to someone.
Example: "In the face of alien circumstances, the team had to adapt quickly to survive."
Alternatives: "unfamiliar conditions" or "foreign situations".
Can an opera written so long ago, first performed under what might seem alien circumstances (to an audience of around 300 comprising only men, with the female parts taken by castrati), whose cast contains two allegorical characters (Music and Hope), have currency and power for us today?
"He gets a bit nervous but I've been working on the mental side and it's about being able to keep calm and relaxed in these alien circumstances.
Although the rainforest may be alien, its circumstances aren't.
Tony Blair, an alien in all circumstances, does not have the same problem.
They live the high life of rock stars but in circumstances that seem alien in the West.
The risk to the community posed by a removable alien is a function of a variety of circumstances, circumstances that do not diminish just because the alien cannot be deported within some foreseeable time.
Hence, "whether to continue to detain such an alien and, if so, in what circumstances and for how long" is up to the attorney general, not up to the courts.
And, once the flight risk justification evaporates, the only special circumstance present is the alien's removable status itself, which bears no relation to a detainee's dangerousness.
Those circumstances include the seriousness of the alien's past offenses, his or her efforts at rehabilitation, and some indication from the alien that, given the real prospect of detention, the alien will conform his or her conduct.
Again, in the words of the Supreme Court, Congresss made a deliberate choice to delegate to the Executive Branch, and specifically to the Attorney General, the authority to allow deportable aliens to remain in this country in certain specified circumstances".
In all circumstances and in every way he comes off alien and affluence-perverted and so perversely and simultaneously self-regarding and oblivious that only the word "Miami" seems capable of summing it all up.
