Sentence examples for official circumstances from inspiring English sources

Under official circumstances, we glorify this sort of behavior.

As Westminster begins to face up to growing evidence that at the same time (but with no connection to Thorpe) there was an extensive paedophile ring that included MPs and Whitehall officials, the circumstances of the Thorpe scandal may seem much more relevant than they have in the 35 years since he retired from public life.

It was common at the time for Stalin and the government to swiftly change course and condemn former officials for circumstances they themselves set in motion.

Some council members, as a result, have been limited to six years in office rather than eight, like most other elected city officials, a circumstance that recurs every 20 years.

What Trump lacks is any support among the ranks of the Republican Party's elected officials, a circumstance that seemed to matter more than most everything else in recent G.O.P. nomination fights but that he has turned into a badge of honor.

In Washington, a senior State Department official said the circumstances surrounding the crashes were being closely watched.

He, like all responsible adults in this bushfire-prone patch of Australia, knew the official advice for circumstances such as this: stay and fight or go early.

Mr. terHorst's resignation was — and still is — considered a rare act of conscience by a high-ranking public official, and the circumstances in which it occurred were extraordinary.

And while some hiring, with the permission of the Office of Management and Budget, will still be allowed in what one city official called "extraordinary circumstances," the freeze will make it difficult for many agencies to replace those who have retired recently.

The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled last year that a nine-paragraph description by a Pentagon official of the circumstances of Mr. Hamdi's seizure was sufficient to validate his continued detention.

Where the statutory provision applies, a sentencing court's concern with the Guidelines goes solely to the upper limit of the proper Guideline range as setting the maximum term for which a juvenile may be committed to official detention, absent circumstances that would warrant departure under § 3553(b).