While extenuating circumstances might sometimes prevent Member States from complying with their obligation to pay their assessed contributions in full, on time and without conditions, detailed explanations of those circumstances must be submitted to the Committee on Contributions within the specified time frame.

(b) The Jordanian Penal Code No. 16 of 1960 includes a mitigating circumstances clause, whereby the perpetrator of an honour crime may be immune from punishment if it is shown that the victim committed an adulterous act.

48. In paragraph 495 of the report, the Working Group notes that most treaties are silent about defences and extenuating circumstances and that no rules of international criminal law on these matters have evolved.

As such, sometimes the accused bring up certain mitigating factors.

Don t we criticize reduced sentences in so called honor crimes all the time? Is that against the law?

(a) Mitigating circumstances, in particular for persons who, having been implicated in the commission of an enforced disappearance, effectively contribute to bringing the disappeared person forward alive or make it possible to clarify cases of enforced disappearance or to identify the perpetrators of an enforced disappearance

(a) Mitigating circumstances, inter alia for persons who, having been implicated in the commission of an enforced disappearance, effectively contribute to bringing the disappeared person forward alive or make it possible to clarify cases of enforced disappearance or to identify the perpetrators of an enforced disappearance

Thailand replied that the mentally retarded or those of extremely limited mental competence may not be sentenced to death because section 78 of the Thai Penal Code allows extenuating circumstances to be taken into account by the Court, which may if it thinks fit, reduce the punishment to be inflicted on the offender by not more than one half .

I had been unaware, he thought, of some extenuating factors for the destruction I witnessed.

She was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility in the deaths of toddlers Martin Brown and Brian Howe.

For now, it looks very much as if, come 2015, the world s leaders will have failed to keep their (watered down) promises.

Countries qualifying for a PCL would have to meet some, but relatively minimal and unobtrusive, conditions.

Defences and mitigating circumstances available will depend on the nationality and or the place where a crime is committed.

She also expressed concern about the apparent leniency of penalties for extremely serious offences such as trafficking, the sexual abuse of minors and incest.

Ms. Cinar (Turkey) said that, as part of the legal reform exercise, leniency provisions for custom or honour killings, which were essentially synonymous, had been abolished.

Remember, the deck was stacked against you.

Under such circumstances, we cannot succeed.

To be sure, pro active anti poverty programs, loose credit, a commodity export boom, and heavy government spending (financed by an equally heavy tax burden) lifted millions out of poverty.

For now, it looks very much as if, come 2015, the world s leaders will have failed to keep their (watered down) promises. That means that they will be responsible for permitting the needless deaths, every year, of millions of people.

(c) Climatic conditions

Diseases flourished in the chaotic wartime conditions.

I don't want to work under these conditions.

The conditions in the camps for internally displaced persons are far from perfect.

Circumstances precluding wrongfulness

Social conditions and social policies

It shows that current conditions are good, but that expectations about future conditions have dropped off significantly.

For instance, if everyone is in a bad mood it is necessary to change the conditions, or perhaps work harder to achieve the goal and improve the conditions.

Even in the most difficult circumstances, Africa is indeed on the move.

Many of these conditions pervade prisons worldwide.

In 2009, we face a similar set of circumstances.

Thirdly, there remains resistance to outlawing terrorism in all circumstances.

Circumstances precluding wrongfulness in the law of State responsibility

A. Rebus sic stantibus

Ms. Akşit (Turkey) said that her country's efforts to suppress honour and custom killings were reflected in the abolition of leniency and the severe penalty life imprisonment prescribed by the Penal Code.

Mr. Al Bader (Qatar), speaking on behalf of the League of Arab States, said that conditions at the current Conference were different from those prevailing in 2000 and 1995.

In such circumstances, liberal democracy and security are in tension.

And US economic conditions now favor Romney.

Those using scientific methods, myrmecologists, study ants in the laboratory and in their natural conditions.

2) Everyone can learn under the right circumstances.

No management can be effective under such circumstances.

The personal circumstances and preferences of the individual staff member shall, as far as possible, be considered.

In such circumstances we cannot sit idly by.

You face the circumstances you have in front of you and you go forward.

This is the condition in which populists thrive.

Factors that influence health conditions