ADVERB
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because of prevailing conditions
under the circumstances I cannot buy the house
How To Use under the circumstances In A Sentence
- It's a narrow definition of freedom, yes, but necessary under the circumstances, we've all been told a hundred times if we've been told once.
- What looks like a slow, dull session even for August, it is, under the circumstances, a grand achievement.
- She asks him tearfully how he can expect her to remain on at Thornfield under the circumstances.
- This does not mean that his account is bland and colourless, but he is striving for scholarly objectivity and clarity as far as that is possible under the circumstances.
- I had before me a stack of final proofs to approve, but under the circumstances it was nearly impossible to read them; every word seemed trivial in comparison to the horrific tragedy.
- Although this new labeling is inconsistent with the current monograph, FDA will not object, under the circumstances presented here, to the new label modification stating "do not use in children under 4," which reflects a more restrictive use of the drugs in children. DC Metro Area Medical Malpractice Law Blog
- There were errors but under the circumstances they were entirely understandable. Times, Sunday Times
- You see a statistic called the Subsample Signal Strength or Expressed Population Signal, where under the circumstances of any of these sites, the dendro people would claim that their signal is accurate to within very small percentages – but such claims are clearly unreconciliable with the big divergences between nearby series – a completely different Divergence Problem than the NAS Panel has in mind, but a big one nevertheless. 5 Niwot Ridge Chronologies « Climate Audit
- A day or two afterwards, chancing in the evening promenade on a gun deck to pass Billy, he offered a flying word of good-fellowship, as it were, which by its unexpectedness, and equivocalness under the circumstances so embarrassed Billy that he knew not how to respond to it, and let it go unnoticed. Billy Budd
- Accusing someone of "plagiarizing" off the Internet, at least under the circumstances herein described, is tantamount to accusing a writer of cheating by using reference books in a library. Aztec symbolism: part two