Such information, the lawyers said, could help them develop mitigating arguments against execution.
There are also mitigating arguments concerning "core" inflation and the benefits of using the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index to measure inflation instead of the CPI, but macro theory as a science doesn't fare much better under these alternatives.
Despite mitigating arguments, the judge said he had no choice but to convict all three of dangerous driving and banned them from driving for a year but granted them permission to drive in the meantime in the event that they decided to appeal.
If the Sept. 11 defendants do face death penalty proceedings, their lawyers will almost certainly cite as a mitigating argument against capital punishment their clients' treatment in detention, including the claims of coercive interrogation and in the case of Mr. Mohammed, the 183 instances of waterboarding.
Cooper revealed that Archie — who often served as automatic quarterback so as to mitigate any arguments — was also a fan of the play involving a receiver's sprinting off the line, falling to the ground with a feigned hamstring injury in an effort to trick the defender into easing up, and then miraculously recovering and flying past the unsuspecting rube.
He shows that these exchanges transformed skepticism by mitigating its arguments while broadening the learned world's confidence in the capacities of reason by moderating its aspirations.
This book examines a whole array of new, mitigating defense arguments, including the battered wife syndrome; premenstrual syndrome; diminished capacity because of, say, drunkenness; new permutations of what constitutes self-defense; various forms of psychological and physical abuses, etc.
Despite these problems, two arguments mitigate against a novel-environment effect inflating our genetic covariance estimates: firstly, the genetic correlation between fecundity and longevity in females is strong and negative.
Two arguments mitigate this possibility, however.
These concerns were in some ways mitigated by the argument that the quality of UK medical data is generally high: Our worse data is better than most other countries' best data.
