Usage examples of "circonstances atténuantes" in French with translation to English

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Des circonstances atténuantes ont conduit le juge à prononcer une peine plus clémente. Extenuating circumstances led the judge to pass a more lenient sentence.
Il n'a pas pu s'adapter à de nouvelles circonstances. He couldn't adapt to new circumstances.
Les circonstances ne m'ont pas permis de t'aider. Circumstances did not permit me to help you.
Les circonstances nous sont entièrement favorables. Circumstances are entirely favorable to us.
Chokichi sentait vivement que les gens, à mesure qu'ils vieillissent, oublient entièrement les soucis que seuls les jeunes peuvent connaître et dont ils ont eux-mêmes fait l'expérience dans leur jeunesse ; et qu'ils prennent nonchalamment cette attitude facile où ils jugent durement les circonstances des jeunes de la nouvelle génération. Il sentait qu'il y avait réellement une distance irréconciliable entre les vieux et les jeunes. Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.
Il se peut que j'y aille, mais ça dépend des circonstances. I may go there, but that depends.
Tom est mort dans des circonstances étranges. Tom died in strange circumstances.
À part dans quelques circonstances, personne n'est autorisé à entrer dans l'immeuble. Except in special circumstances, anyone is allowed to enter the building.
Tu ne peux rien dire jusqu'à ce que tu connaisses les circonstances. You can't say anything till you know the circumstances.
Il peut dissimuler ses sentiments si les circonstances le demande. He can mask his feeling if the occasion calls for it.
Les circonstances ne m'ont pas permis de vous aider. Circumstances did not permit me to help you.
Mais si j'ai commis un crime, toutes les circonstances de l'affaire en sont changées. But if I have committed a crime, every circumstance of the case is changed.
Comprenez bien que dans de telles circonstances, nous n'avons pas d'autres alternatives que de trouver un autre acheteur. Bear in mind that, under such circumstances, we have no alternative but to find another buyer.
Dans quelles circonstances le défaut est-il apparu ? When did the error occur?
Elle désirait une vie plus détendue, mais dans ces circonstances, c'était impossible. She wished for a more relaxing life, but that was impossible under the circumstances.
Ne sois pas bruyant dans de telles circonstances. Don't be noisy on such an occasion.
L'homme n'est pas tant la créature que le créateur des circonstances. Man is not the creature, so much as he is the creator, of circumstances.
J'aimerais que nous ayons pu nous rencontrer dans de meilleures circonstances. I wish we could have met under better circumstances.
Bien avant la théorie de l'évolution de Darwin, Buffon avait présumé que les espèces évoluaient très lentement selon différentes circonstances matérielles. Long before Darwin's theory of evolution, Buffon had surmised that species evolved very slowly under different material circumstances.
L'élégance, en toutes circonstances. Elegance at all times.
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