Extenuating

There may be what you call extenuating circumstances -- though I can't quite imagine it. ❋ Unknown (1910)

"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." ❋ Charlotte M. Brame (1860)

This law simply gives the police authority in extenuating circumstances during the course of a routine stop (traffic violation, etc). ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Don DeLillo (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Blake Bailey (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

They'll discover some kind of extenuating circumstance. ❋ Tim F. (2010)

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. ❋ Mark Steyn (2010)

Incapacity and ignorance cannot be called extenuating circumstances, for knowledge is within the reach of all " ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

I take this opportunity to respond to two questions he posed, namely, "Is conversion wrong?" and "Is anger over conversion an extenuating circumstance for murder?" ❋ Esq. Suhag A. Shukla (2011)

Many, including the Hindu American Foundation, though, see the specific comments by the Indian Supreme Court now modified, not as a basis for justifying extenuating circumstances, but rather an expression of the growing concern over foreign missionaries and their impact on India's hallmark pluralistic ethos. ❋ Esq. Suhag A. Shukla (2011)

No -- anger over conversion is not an extenuating circumstance for murder. ❋ Esq. Suhag A. Shukla (2011)

There may be extenuating circumstances, and it may be genuinely painful for, say, someone brought up in a white supremacist household to work with a black person for the first time. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There may be extenuating circumstances but this seems "much ado about nothing." donna ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Questionable interrogation practices, extenuating circumstances—” ❋ T.J. Forrester (2011)

That would match what seems to be the more popular position anecdotially – that abortion is often the lesser of several evils, and should be restricted but not completly prohibited, exceptions being allowed for various extenuating circumstances. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The extenuatin [circumstances] were [great] to be [avoided]. ❋ Larstait (2003)