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How to use extenuating in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word extenuating? Here are some examples.

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She could not forget her father's insistence to always pray from a siddur unless there were extenuating circumstances.
Labour leader Ian Male said last night that the increases could not be morally justified, although there were extenuating circumstances.
I do think the extenuating circumstances mean that a transfer is necessary.
In extenuating circumstances a cat may need his fur trimmed, otherwise a weekly brushing should do it.
This could be due to either extenuating circumstances or more time required to become fully acculturated to the shelter.
The complainee acknowledged his unethical behavior, giving what he considered to be extenuating circumstances for such behavior.
This still leaves scope for the sentence to be lessened in the light of extenuating circumstances to do with the crime itself.
He states that there were extenuating circumstances which justify the delay in filing the income tax returns.
There are extenuating circumstances, her ignorance, her naivety, her youth, and another's scheming and deception.
She is unconcerned with explanations, alternative interpretations of the evidence, extenuating circumstances.
There were no extenuating circumstances nor can the Board imagine any that could have justified his continuance.
The two also have a stimulating discussion about whether murder can ever be justified by extenuating circumstances.
He'd agreed to the deal very quickly, too quickly, even given the extenuating circumstances.
In the meantime it created embarrassment and difficulties for the College in considering her extenuating circumstances.
Orders came down that anyone who was currently out of status, regardless of any pending applications or extenuating circumstances, was to be automatically detained.
Effective in the 2003 fall semester, the university will change the way it handles requests by students for course withdrawal under extenuating circumstances.
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.
If you currently have an approved vacation, contact your CTM, Delivery Manager, Captain to establish alternate dates or justify extenuating circumstances.
And there are other considerations-the value of the stolen property, the absence of any extenuating circumstances like dire need, or repentance and restoration of property.
There are, however, what are known as extenuating or exonerating circumstances, which under Jordanian law are applicable to some offences.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In his learned essay Mr. Schick pleads extenuating circumstances in favour of Lydgate.
After all, in the eyes of the moralist, there were extenuating circumstances in pons' case.
However, it shall be counted as an extenuating circumstance that you did not know me.
Here, as before a jury, the magnitude of a crime was an extenuating circumstance.
Not one extenuating circumstance did they find in their hardened hearts for him.
It is a time when the truth, all the truth, might be accepted as an extenuating circumstance.
The writer of the essay admits that there may be extenuating circumstances.
Who amongst us dares to withhold the extenuating circumstance?
But were there not some extenuating circumstances in my favor.
But really, you know, where are the extenuating circumstances?
There were extenuating circumstances about what Lafe Wynn had done.
As far as I can see, it is the only extenuating circumstance.
But that extenuating circumstance does not apply to the sporting dinner.
He mentioned this as an extenuating circumstance, evidently.
But you will observe, as an extenuating circumstance, that I am young.
On these three considerations alone is based the conception of irresponsibility for crimes and the extenuating circumstances admitted by all legislative codes.
And in the end the criminal was, in consideration of extenuating circumstances, condemned to penal servitude in the second class for a term of eight years only.
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