Circumstances
21circumstances\ alter\ cases — formal the way things are, or happen, may change the way you are expected to act. John s father told him never to touch his gun, but one day when Father was away, John used it to shoot a poisonous snake that came into the yard. Circumstances… …
22circumstances — one s state of financial or material welfare. → circumstance …
23circumstances — n. pl. 1. Situation, condition, position, state of affairs. 2. Surroundings, environment, attendant conditions. 3. Pecuniary standing, moneyed condition …
24circumstances — plural noun Syn: situation, conditions, state of affairs, position, the lie of the land, (turn of) events, factors, facts, background, environment, context …
25circumstances — / sɜ:kəmstænsɪz/ plural noun a general situation, especially insofar as it influences what a person can do or the way in which something happens. ⇒ financial …
26attenuating circumstances — circumstances which make a situation less strong, mediating circumstances …
27alleviating circumstances — circumstances that reduce the severity of an action (Law) …
28destitute or necessitous circumstances — Circumstances in which one needs the necessaries of life, which cover not only primitive physical needs, things absolutely indispensable to human existence and decency, but those things, also, which are in fact necessary to the particular person… …
29destitute or necessitous circumstances — Circumstances in which one needs the necessaries of life, which cover not only primitive physical needs, things absolutely indispensable to human existence and decency, but those things, also, which are in fact necessary to the particular person… …
30Circumstances prior to the Malayan Emergency — In 1948, the Communists and the British colonial government in Malaya entered a period of guerrilla fighting which has become known to history as the Malayan Emergency. The name derives from the state of emergency declared by the colonial… …