They tried to use the weather as an extenuating circumstance for why they were late. From LearnThat.org.
extenuating circumstances. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
There may be what you call extenuating circumstances -- though I can't quite imagine it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lamp in the Desert] Reference
They'll discover some kind of extenuating circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [Balloon Juice] Reference
Incapacity and ignorance cannot be called extenuating circumstances, for knowledge is within the reach of all ". From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
The public appetite did not want extenuating facts. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Was not he, too, pleading extenuating circumstances?. From Wordnik.com. [One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks'] Reference
I am putting things down as they were, extenuating nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
Still it is rather late to plead extenuating circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917] Reference
But were there not some extenuating circumstances in my favor. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Can you not consider this a plea for extenuating circumstances?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892] Reference
But in this case it can be shown that there were extenuating circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
The writer of the essay admits that there may be extenuating circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
If Henry Francis yielded to temptation there were extenuating circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California] Reference
"Guilty," but without premeditation, and admitting extenuating circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In his learned essay Mr. Schick pleads extenuating circumstances in favour of. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Then, "I shouldn't call that an extenuating circumstance," he mentioned wryly. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
I set them down just as they occurred, extenuating nothing and concealing nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920] Reference
How far can they be urged as extenuating or even defending misdemeanors and crimes?. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
There were extenuating circumstances justifying the re-election of President Linton. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922] Reference
No explanation or extenuating circumstances can be attempted in that deep confusion. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
I admit the fact freely, but beg to be permitted to plead extenuating circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
And the poor officers -- well for them that there were no extenuating terms, no mercy. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
He says he is going to plead 'extenuating circumstances,' if he is brought to the bar. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
Nevertheless the order may differ by reason of aggravating or extenuating circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Above all she had true vision of Stephen Arnold, glorifying nowhere, extenuating nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
There are certain extenuating circumstances which we recognize; self-defense, for example. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
Above all, she had true vision of Stephen Arnold, glorifying nowhere, extenuating nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
In the minds of many it was only a question of what the extenuating circumstances might be. From Wordnik.com. [The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective] Reference
He had told her himself months ago, callously, brutally, sparing her nothing, extenuating nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
After mature reflection, I can think of but one extenuating plea: I was only twenty-six at the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
Mr. Eddy and others pleaded extenuating circumstances and proposed that the accused should leave the camp. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference
I know that some cannot put themselves through school because of disabilities or extenuating circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Pay Your Own Way! (Then Thank Mom)] Reference
But some extenuating circumstances exist that soften the criticism of his overall mixed environmental record. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Flattau: Cutting Some Slack] Reference
However, a sweet and slightly aromatic taste that follows the first impression is an extenuating circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
The inquiry naturally occurs, Are there no extenuating circumstances to be adduced on the part of the Japanese?. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He is bound to show extenuating or justifying circumstances, as much as the man who writes what he calls "poems.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference
Because a few evenings earlier, with the help of a splendid full moon and one or two extenuating circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919] Reference
These are extenuating facts; but the mischiefs of this ill - starred legislation are none the less to be deplored. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
There were, however, extenuating circumstances, in that a vast quantity of provisions had been seized at Jacobsdal. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
There are some extenuating circumstances that should soften the criticism of his overall mixed environmental record. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Flattau: Cutting Some Slack] Reference
The Premier had been negligent about some documentary evidence extenuating to the Flavelle presentation of the case. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
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