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    1. Under no circumstance the allotted time should be crossed


    2. me was always greater then the visible circumstance


    3. A circumstance for which I envy them heartily … I am trying to be positive but although logic tells me that the likelihood of me being in that state is remote, my record for bad luck so far is not comforting


    4. It's just an unfortunate circumstance


    5. It's way more than some unfortunate circumstance


    6. They never have to explain or vocalize the circumstance


    7. resort used only in a circumstance such as the one that happened earlier


    8. Nevertheless, Jack had fallen into this big pile of mud, and this was what had broken his fall, and it is certainly much better to be messy than it is to be dead, so instead of complaining about this rotten circumstance he found himself in, he looked around his surroundings, and was surprised to find a skeleton nearby!


    9. The School Committee and the Village Council accepted the keys to the new School House in a ceremony of much pomp and circumstance at the end of the Autumn Term


    10. In this state of things, the whole produce of labour belongs to the labourer; and the quantity of labour commonly employed in acquiring or producing any commodity, is the only circumstance which can regulate the quantity of labour which it ought commonly to purchase, command, or exchange

    11. Neither is the quantity of labour commonly employed in acquiring or producing any commodity, the only circumstance which can regulate the quantity which it ought commonly to purchase, command or exchange for


    12. with this circumstance, necessarily enhance still further the price of their labour


    13. ‘Well, it’s conjecture again but I figure that the virus has an ability to react to any circumstance that puts the host body, you, in danger


    14. But the increase of the value of silver had, it seems, so far compensated the diminution of the quantity of it contained in the same nominal sum, that the legislature did not think it worth while to attend to this circumstance


    15. In a fertile soil and happy climate, the great abundance and cheapness of land, a circumstance common to all new colonies, is, it seems, so great an advantage, as to compensate many defects in civil government


    16. This circumstance must necessarily have some tendency to sink the price of raw hides produced in a country which does not manufacture them, but is obliged to export them, and comparatively to raise that of those produced in a country which does manufacture them


    17. The fertility or barrenness of the mines, however, which may happen at any particular time to supply the commercial world, is a circumstance which, it is evident, may have no sort of connection with the state of industry in a particular country


    18. If the rise in the price of some sorts of provisions be owing altogether to a fall in the value of silver, it is owing to a circumstance, from which nothing can be inferred but the fertility of the American mines


    19. The real wealth of the country, the annual produce of its land and labour, may, notwithstanding this circumstance, be either gradually declining, as in Portugal and Poland ; or gradually advancing, as in most other parts of Europe


    20. But if this rise in the price of some sorts of provisions be owing to a rise in the real value of the land which produces them, to its increased fertility, or, in consequence of more extended improvement and good cultivation, to its having been rendered fit for producing corn; it is owing to a circumstance which indicates, in the clearest manner, the prosperous and advancing state of the country

    21. } To let a farm in this manner, was quite agreeable to the usual economy of, I believe, the sovereigns of all the different countries of Europe, who used frequently to let whole manors to all the tenants of those manors, they becoming jointly and severally answerable for the whole rent ; but in return being allowed to collect it in their own way, and to pay it into the king's exchequer by the hands of their own bailiff, and being thus altogether freed from the insolence of the king's officers; a circumstance in those days regarded as of the greatest importance


    22. To dream that you are in an enclosure that is shrinking indicates that you feel restrained and confined in some circumstance


    23. That this extraordinary profit, however, is no more than sufficient to put his trade upon a fair level with other trades, and to compensate the many losses which he sustains upon other occasions, both from the perishable nature of the commodity itself, and from the frequent and unforeseen fluctuations of its price, seems evident enough, from this single circumstance, that great fortunes are as seldom made in this as in any other trade


    24. Deacon Jones: Job’s situation changed and his circumstance, but he never lost his purpose to honor God


    25. Because controlling the contents of consciousness, by itself, can enable a person to be happy and content in virtually any circumstance, the invitation to happiness is constant


    26. is a creator of event and circumstance


    27. The odd time, a meeting may be cut short due to an unexpected problem or circumstance


    28. creatures of circumstance at the mercy of fate


    29. creatures of event and circumstance and they will be


    30. and circumstance to the internal world of thought,

    31. circumstance in your life is to first create the ideal in


    32. Our manufacturers soon bethought themselves of the advantage which they might make of this circumstance; and in the year 1764, the duty upon the importation of beaver skin was reduced to one penny, but the duty upon exportation was raised to sevenpence each skin, without any drawback of the duty upon importation


    33. The soldiers who are exercised only once aweek, or once a-month, can never be so expert in the use of their arms, as those who are exercised every day, or every other day; and though this circumstance may not be of so much consequence in modern, as it was in ancient times, yet the acknowledged superiority of the Prussian troops, owing, it is said, very much to their superior expertness in their exercise, may satisfy us that it is, even at this day, of very considerable consequence


    34. This circumstance, it is probable, contributed more than any other to determine the fate of those battles


    35. Under the local or provincial administration of the justices of the peace in Great Britain, the six days labour which the country people are obliged to give to the reparation of the highways, is not always, perhaps, very judiciously applied, but it is scarce ever exacted with any circumstance of cruelty or oppression


    36. To render such an establishment perfectly reasonable, with the circumstance of being reducible to strict rule and method, two other circumstances ought to concur


    37. The law, contrary to all the ordinary principles of justice, first creates the temptation, and then punishes those who yield to it; and it commonly enhances the punishment, too, in proportion to the very circumstance which ought certainly to alleviate it, the temptation to commit the crime


    38. of its value, without any regard, either to the rent which it actually pays, or to the circumstance of its being tenanted or untenanted


    39. They have regulated their taxes, therefore, according to some more obvious circumstance, such as they had probably imagined would, in most cases, bear some proportion to the rent


    40. It belonged to some other era, some other circumstance

    41. If you except, however, this very peculiar situation, any inequality in the contribution of individuals which can arise from such taxes, is much more than compensated by the very circumstance which occasions that inequality; the circumstance that every man's contribution is altogether voluntary ; it being altogether in his power, either to consume, or not to consume, the commodity taxed


    42. Of the few who have this capital or credit, a still smaller number have the necessary knowledge or experience; another circumstance which restrains the competition still further


    43. circumstance of the times when communications were slow and


    44. fourth circumstance was the development of offshore companies,


    45. Terminating the lives of these millions of beings was surely against Directive doctrine regardless of circumstance


    46. This sociological phenomenon owed more to circumstance rather than bias


    47. These differences must necessarily circumscribe or limit, whether influenced by natural designs, circumstance or purposeful intent, the decisions that (we) make or don‘t make, or are unable to make, for that matter; for example, a below-average student seeking enrollment at an Ivy League College or a modest wage earner looking to buy a home in a pricey neighborhood


    48. Need of circumstance, and Presque’s political influence, allowed them to join forces with the


    49. How we sow into our children's lives will vary from season to season and circumstance to circumstance


    50. He has a plan for every situation and circumstance









































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    Synonyms for "circumstance"

    circumstance condition consideration context setting event situation incident status time occurrence episode contingency detail item phase proviso ceremony formality ritual solemnity

    "circumstance" definitions

    a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity


    the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event


    information that should be kept in mind when making a decision


    formal ceremony about important occasions