aggravator
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aggravators
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The spokesperson added that it also "provides for a statutory aggravator so that the fact the victim was delivering a public service is clearly recognised during sentencing".
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
What's more, New York Fed research shows supply chain pressures - an aggravator of goods inflation over the past couple of years - normalised last month.
From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2023
"Those folks were all affiliated and are a part of our analysis as we move forward with the aggravator regarding the gang activity," Larizza said.
From Fox News ● Sep. 2, 2021
Even if each of the seven jurors cites a different aggravator, the jury as a whole must endorse execution.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2015
That the age of universal popularity of the nylon-haired, doe-eyed, plastic embodiment of body fascism, that icon of mindless consumption and ravening materialism, promulgator of female passivity and aggravator of vanity is over at last?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2013
Frequenters of Washington Square Park, too, are often serial aggravators.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2020
And the defendant is barred by state law from asking the jury to explain which aggravators justified capital punishment.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2015
First, while a jury of 12 does assess aggravators and mitigators, it doesn’t have to decide unanimously whether aggravators outweigh mitigators.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2015
If the aggravators are proved to a jury, it would be grounds for an exceptional sentence beyond the standard range.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2014
At the very same instant the cheers of my dear friends the students drowned the laughter of the aggravators.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt
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