mitigating factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmitigatingandfactor
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mitigating
adjective
uk/ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪ.tɪŋ/us/ˈmɪt̬.ə.ɡeɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
formal
making something less harmful, unpleasant, ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæk.tər/us/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition ofmitigatingandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That is themitigatingfactor.
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Including nonsense stems is one way to determine whether lexical frequency is the onlymitigatingfactor.
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Military conflicts cannot be amitigatingfactor.
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Amitigatingfactor, however, is that higher ranking ministers also face greater levels of scrutiny in parliament and the press.
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Satanism was not considered amitigatingfactorin his sentencing.
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The onlymitigatingfactor, which may go some way to avoiding disaster, is the inclusion of the development risk defence.
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Clearly, in reaching the determination to suspend the sentence, somemitigatingfactoris in the judge's mind.
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They have been reprieved because it was thought that in their cases there was amitigatingfactor.
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I foresaw a scenario of inevitable decline in the world with aid as a minormitigatingfactoronly of relief.
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If the reward is not high enough, costs of production may be amitigatingfactorin production itself.
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The excuse provides amitigatingfactorfor a group of persons sharing a common characteristic.
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They had not put forward schizophrenia as amitigatingfactoror pleaded the insanity defense.
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It would not be a total defence but amitigatingfactorand would depend on the degree of excessive force applied.
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Such people tend to ask their lawyers to tell the judge that they were drunk, as if that was amitigatingfactor.
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A compliance programme which is ineffective to prevent infringements may be amitigatingfactorbut will not relieve the company from the imposition of penalties.
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But it is true that we must seek some mechanism according to which the fact that companies comply with the legislation in force is considered amitigatingfactor.
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Secondly, unlike expenditure in manufacturing industry, public expenditure does not have themitigatingfactorof increasing productivity at most points to reduce the impact of the rising cost.
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One is challenged by the thought that the circumstances of violence could be amitigatingfactoror could make the violence much more serious and less acceptable.
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It was found that it did not absolve him of guilt, but could be amitigatingfactorin sentencing.
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I linked liability for risk with state-of-the-art defence as amitigatingfactor; 100 % mitigation would mean that the judge could decide not to hold somebody liable.
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I suppose that it would be amitigatingfactorif it were said that, instead of cutting off the thief's right hand, we would cut off his left hand.
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It was thought that a person should rather submit to death, although the threat to his own life might be regarded as amitigatingfactor.
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In an appeal, he argued that his psychopathy should have been regarded as a mental illness, and thus as amitigatingfactor.
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