Collocations withcircumstance
These are words often used in combination withcircumstance.
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accidental circumstance
It is an almost accidental circumstance that the members of the partnership have changed.
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actual circumstances
The belief that attitude determined the way life treated one was more a reflection of personality than of actual circumstances.
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adverse circumstances
All of the above studies have involved children living under highly adverse circumstances, or children with behavioral or emotional pathology.
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aggravating circumstance
And the fact that this kind of shortcoming quite often has an impact not on a particular individual, but on an entire nation, is of course an aggravating circumstance.
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altered circumstances
That uncertainty, however, could not be attributed to altered circumstances alone.
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appalling circumstances
The photographs accompanying that story depicted the appalling circumstances in which pensioners lived and were censored from the article.
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appropriate circumstances
For example, a definition requires appropriate circumstances, such as in a text written by experts aimed at initiates.
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best circumstances
Grief can, under the best circumstances, change who we are, how we live, and even the social conditions in which we live.
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bizarre circumstances
However, aside from a handful of unusual case studies that have limited credibility because of their bizarre circumstances, there is no reliable way of addressing the question.
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certain circumstance
First, there is the problem of specifying what the appropriate response is for a properly functioning person in a certain circumstance.
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challenging circumstances
Some individuals described difficult or challenging circumstances at home that made the workplace attractive.
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changed circumstance
Many of the speeches omitted one entirely changed circumstance, which relates precisely to the unprecedented danger that we are in.
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changing circumstance
From this perspective there is a strong belief that previous levels of competence or incompetence may have small relevance in the face of changing circumstance.
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circumstances of death
Living arrangements and family support are also important influences on the circumstances of death.
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conceivable circumstance
The writer evidently intended to offer to his people a kind of text-book to which men and women might have recourse for guidance in almost every conceivable circumstance of life.
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controlled circumstances
A child learns about danger through being exposed to it in controlled circumstances.
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current circumstance
Comparable patterns are likely in other such cities, the mix and statistical rating of languages varying according to history, geography, and current circumstance.
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desperate circumstances
Children come here in the most desperate circumstances, having experienced horrors—and what are we going to do with them?
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difficult circumstance
This was an especially difficult circumstance.
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dire circumstances
Invasive surgery scares us, yet we allow doctors to cut our bodies in certain dire circumstances (circumcision surfaces as a notable exception here).
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dreadful circumstances
The darkest of hair and great dark eyes and in spite of the dreadful circumstances of his life a healthy looking complexion.
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dubious circumstances
His principled stand condemned him to the back-benches, and in 1979 he lost his parliamentary seat in dubious circumstances.
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economic circumstance
The economic circumstance of supply and demand for teachers is a factor that must be taken into account.
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exact circumstances
Even if the concentration and quantity of odour happened to be optimal, we had little control over the exact circumstances of the exposure.
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exceptional circumstance
Rural depopulation was, then, a feature of the area reversed only by an exceptional circumstance like the advent of the coal industry.
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exigent circumstance
The reformation of the contract to provide extra wages in exchange for extra work under exigent circumstances was not enforceable for public policy reasons.
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extenuating circumstance
I merely mention, as an extenuating circumstance, that it is not alone in that.
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external circumstances
One reason is deteriorating external circumstances, which lower both the private and communal profitability of investment in the resource base.
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extraordinary circumstance
And here we have an extraordinary circumstance, where we have had to impose these sanctions.
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extreme circumstance
It has the same liability as we all have under common law to come to the aid of the civil police in that sort of extreme circumstance.
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fortuitous circumstance
It is, from their point of view, a fortuitous circumstance which has turned to their advantage.
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fortunate circumstance
The fortunate circumstance of volunteered rhymes allows phonemic awareness and rhyming abilities to be documented in very young children.
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given circumstance
Being able to represent these definitions formally does not solve the problem of knowing which definition to use in a given circumstance.
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historical circumstance
We contend that progress on this integration is slowed by a filigree of historical circumstance and assumptions that are no longer supportable.
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humble circumstances
It is the habit of people in humble circumstances, in giving an explanation, to begin far away at the beginning.
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hypothetical circumstance
But would it not be possible to take a hypothetical circumstance and try to deal with the question in that context?
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ideal circumstance
I think we should overstate the case if we suggested that this was necessarily an ideal circumstance.
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immediate circumstances
There is only "knowledge" of objects as embedded in the immediate circumstances and the history of perceiving and acting in similar circumstances.
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inappropriate circumstances
Courts would not require tagging in inappropriate circumstances.
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limited circumstances
Hence, there is the worry that results found under these limited circumstances are not ecologically valid.
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mitigating circumstance
Roman and canonical law had long considered the mental state of offenders as a mitigating circumstance that could diminish criminal responsibility.
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modest circumstances
I have in mind the hundreds of thousands in modest circumstances.
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mysterious circumstances
A pilot project ended after one of its leaders was found dead under mysterious circumstances.
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normal circumstance
I have no doubt that, in normal circumstance, they are able to effect the necessary and responsible scrutiny of the security services.
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objective circumstances
Such a measurement strategy recognizes the significance of maternal perceptions above and beyond objective circumstances.
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odd circumstance
Is that not a rather odd circumstance?
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ordinary circumstance
Each individual's genome cannot, under ordinary circumstance, be altered.
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particular circumstance
Both points of view considered the possibility of a nursing home placement in the particular circumstance of being resident in a different country.
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peculiar circumstance
We are caught in this rather peculiar circumstance in which there are good parts of the monetary framework which have been established.
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present circumstance
The present circumstance is the outcome of the social structure.
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rare circumstance
I would make the point that we are dealing with a fairly rare circumstance.
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similar circumstance
Exposure to dust included visiting or working on a building site, or living in, on, or near a building site on an adjacent block, or a similar circumstance.
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special circumstance
It may be necessary to widen or define what is a special circumstance.
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specific circumstance
It was difficult to extrapolate information from idiosyncratic studies and apply it to my specific circumstance.
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straitened circumstances
At the start of their marriage, however, the couple faced straitened circumstances.
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stressful circumstances
This inability to provide minimal interactive support for the infant's development of affect regulation particularly in stressful circumstances, they reason, fosters disorganization.
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surrounding circumstances
I should also like to refer to research into employment and its surrounding circumstances and into unemployment and its causes, as well as research into projected long-term needs.
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suspicious circumstance
It seems a highly suspicious circumstance that it appeared again a moment ago and has been returned to me with such alacrity.
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tragic circumstance
That was a tragic circumstance for that man and his family, and for the young soldier involved.
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unavoidable circumstance
They think this is a result—and very naturally so—of the war, but what they do not think, or believe, is that it is an unavoidable circumstance of peace.
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unexpected circumstances
However, the degree of predictability should depend on how strong the role of ' 'self' ' is when dealing with unexpected circumstances.
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unfavourable circumstances
To be sure, under unfavourable circumstances the effect of decomposition can fail to appear in the surface representation.
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unforeseen circumstance
That formula is supposed to top up the finances of the local authority where it meets an unforeseen circumstance or tragedy, such as occurred there.
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unfortunate circumstance
Child benefit was introduced in the wake of the renewed emphasis on child poverty, in a political climate where children were pitied as victims of unfortunate circumstance.
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unique circumstance
This knowledge presents a unique circumstance to patients; they must come to terms with living while dying.
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unpleasant circumstances
An inspection of the property might lead to a good deal of misconception among the people in the district and to very unpleasant circumstances.
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unusual circumstance
It is an unusual circumstance, but we are as one on the amendments.
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varied circumstances
In practice, definitions are constructed and reconstructed, even newly formulated, as talk and interaction unfold within their varied circumstances and in relation to shared understandings.
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