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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extenuating/mitigating circumstances (= conditions that make it reasonable for someone to break the rules or law )
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Hunger and poverty are not treated by the courts as extenuating circumstances.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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impact
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Environmental science is almost exclusively geared to measuring, managing and mitigating downstream environmental impacts caused by our industrial way of life.
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Every effort to mitigate the impact will encourage the dons to raise the tuitions ever higher.
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The rainforest is also held to be useful to us because it will help to mitigate the worst impacts of global warming.
problem
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He mitigated the problem by saying that the Son's generation by the Father is no event in time but is eternal.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mitigating circumstances/factors
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A good barrister - he'd known Thomas Walters for years - would be able to argue mitigating circumstances.
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I understand that there are mitigating circumstances, programming complications, contracts, etc.
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In its defence, the Government pleads mitigating circumstances.
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In the absence of mitigating factors the virus is likely to hit a dead end wherever strict role separation is practiced.
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Juries have long stretched notions of self-defense or extended implicit clemency to recognize mitigating factors such as provocation and histories of abuse.
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Lancashire were subsequently fined £500, not £700, because of mitigating circumstances.
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Now, that decision has been overturned although the appeal judges spoke of strong mitigating factors in the case.
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There were also mitigating factors, Lord Lane said.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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We have to figure out a way to mitigate the costs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Switching assignments, working on another team, or making other kinds of adjustments can mitigate anger.
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The effect is to mitigate the speaker's refusal of a reasonable request.
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These are not mitigated by the presence of recognizable and attractive actors and actresses.
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You are obliged to mitigate your losses; this duty is explained in Chapter 18.