extenuating

• “There may be what you call extenuating circumstances -- though I can't quite imagine it.”

  The Lamp in the Desert

• “If you had been innocent -- even if there had been what they call extenuating circumstances -- I would have spent a fortune in the endeavor to set you free; but your confession renders me powerless.”

  Wife in Name Only

• “This law simply gives the police authority in extenuating circumstances during the course of a routine stop (traffic violation, etc).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Arizona Law is Much Worse than the Federal Law It is Supposedly Based On

• “He was not a trial lawyer but still, technically, a lawyer, even if he barely believed it himself, and he would assess his guilt openly and present the facts attending the brief relationship and include those crucial circumstances so often and aptly described as extenuating.”

  Simon & Schuster: Falling Man

• “Someone always likes to bring up the idea of extenuating circumstances such as the father who steals bread for his starving children knowing it is wrong, but this does not prove me wrong.”

  Blaster author faces jail

• “Creator of the Web site, DeadCaulfields.com, Slawenski is an unabashed fan, who has spent eight years sifting the few known facts of Salinger's life for the good bits, the gold-that is, the extenuating stuff.”

  Slate Magazine

• “In Florida, you can be held for 21 days before you're released on your own recognizance unless the state has some kind of extenuating circumstances to hold you.”

  CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2005

• “They'll discover some kind of extenuating circumstance.”

  Balloon Juice

• “Hence, the President's elitism becomes a kind of extenuating circumstance: Whether or not we're too dumb to get him, he's too rarified to get us, poor man.”

  The Corner on National Review Online

• “Incapacity and ignorance cannot be called extenuating circumstances, for knowledge is within the reach of all ”

  Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918

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