Sentence examples for weigh circumstances from inspiring English sources

The first hour of argument focused on how jurors weigh circumstances in a defendant's life that may justify sparing that individual's life.

"Only by sifting facts and weighing circumstances can the nonobvious involvement of the State in private conduct be attributed its true significance".

But judges have wide discretion to weigh the circumstances of each family that appears before them.

His case eventually caused the Texas Legislature to rewrite the death penalty statute to allow jurors to weigh mitigating circumstances and impose a life sentence instead of death.

Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, a governmental watchdog group, agreed that Mr. Kelly needed to weigh the circumstances of each police-involved shooting against the "good policy he has adopted in the interest of public safety".

Among the many proposed amendments this week, Senator Grassley's amendments #21 and #22 take away the bill's already limited due process protections that allow immigration judges and officials to weigh individual circumstances in some cases before ordering deportation.

According to a spokesman for Mr. Cleary, had the indictment linked the alleged actions of the officers to Mr. Faison's death and if the officers were successfully prosecuted, they would have faced up to life in prison or the death penalty at sentencing, depending on how a judge weighed the circumstances of the cases.

Traditional matchmakers also have a slight advantage over computers when it comes to weighing life circumstances.

And then the last step is weighing the circumstances and strength of the evidence of these cases.

Lipton was speaking just after U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Washington was weighing the circumstances that could warrant tapping the U.S. strategic oil reserve to counter the supply disruptions from Iran.

Finally, they would weigh any mitigating circumstances and any aggravating circumstances.