The defence is only allowed if the conduct provoking the cause of the loss of control was "extremely grave", gave the defendant "a justifiable sense of being seriously wronged" and would have made someone with "a normal degree of tolerance and self-restraint" lose control and kill as well.
This was a case where you just lost control of normal restraint".
Mr. Hussein, for example, may lose whatever restraint he felt against using the most lethal of his weapons.
Ms. Pelosi, a senior member of the intelligence committee, pointed to a C.I.A. letter declassified this week that judged that Mr. Hussein was not likely to use his weapons against the United States but could lose his restraint if faced with an American-led force.
It'd be a shame to live like that, so lose the restraint!
She starts out by buying modestly, but soon loses her restraint and ends up by spending $12.90.
I had it now, I felt it now, and, beginning to drive, he soon gave nature such a powerful summons down to her favourite quarters, that she could no longer refuse repairing thither; all my animal spirits then rush'd mechanically to that centre of attraction, and presently, inly warmed, and stirr'd as I was beyond bearing, I lost all restraint.
Always sharp-tongued, Luther now lost all restraint, writing in a treatise that Pope Paul III was a sodomite and a transvestite — no surprise, he added, when you considered that all popes, since the beginnings of the Church, were full of devils and vomited and farted and defecated devils.
Zi Lu, indignant, saw Kongzi and asked, 'Is it right that even the superior man should be reduced to poverty?' The Master replied, 'A superior man remains steadfast in the face of poverty; the small man, when impoverished, loses all restraint'" (Lunyu 15.2).
Inside, he looks for anything that might be broken, rips in the upholstery, cigarette burns, missing safety belts or lost head restraints.
