extenuating circumstances

First, we must find out if there are extenuating circumstances.

They know that extenuating circumstances are often the most important kind.

"I think parents care, by and large, but there are a lot of extenuating circumstances that make going to summer school difficult."

"It's against my medical judgment to let you go, but these are extenuating circumstances."

The court and the jury did not take any extenuating circumstances into account.

By March 1, all but a few people with extenuating circumstances will have to leave their hotels.

The repeat of a week was not allowed except under extenuating circumstances.

However, no concrete definition of extenuating circumstances was ever made.

Sometimes there are extenuating circumstances if the match is not exact.

"There always have to be, I guess, some extenuating circumstances.

It had been a strenuous day, made more so by extenuating circumstances.

These facts are not meant to suggest extenuating circumstances for what happened.

There are no extenuating circumstances that suggest an exception should be made.

All the extenuating circumstances say that Vic is a tough woman with a good girl's heart.

Well, there were extenuating circumstances involved last night that would never recur.

Only new graduates were to be hired, except in extenuating circumstances.

Under extenuating circumstances the punishment was at least 10 years of imprisonment.

She didn't give herself any breaks because of the extenuating circumstances.

But city officials said they could not take over the unfinished building unless there were extenuating circumstances, like safety.

Due to extenuating circumstances, this program is no longer in operation."

Not that a god could owe a mortal much, but these were extenuating circumstances.

"It seems we have some extenuating circumstances," he said.

"To my reading, it looked like they were accounting for extenuating circumstances, but not watering down the law."

Whatever extenuating circumstances there may have been, Vincent doesn't want to hear them.

It even made specific mention of "extenuating circumstances," just as he had, but did not go into detail.