It is a time when the truth, all the truth, might be accepted as an extenuating circumstance.
"Yes; but that is cause, not extenuating circumstance," Whittenden objected.
But that extenuating circumstance does not apply to the sporting dinner.
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.
He mentioned this as an extenuating circumstance, evidently.
But you will observe, as an extenuating circumstance, that I am young.
As far as I can see, it is the only extenuating circumstance.
Who amongst us dares to withhold the extenuating circumstance?
Not one extenuating circumstance did they find in their hardened hearts for him.