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certain circumstance

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meanings of certainand circumstance


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certain
adjective
uk /ˈsɜː.tən/ us /ˈsɝː.tən/
having no doubt or knowing exactly that something is true, or known to be true, correct, exact, ...
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circumstance
noun
uk /ˈsɜː.kəm.stɑːns/ us /ˈsɝː.kəm.stæns/
a fact or event that makes a situation the way ...
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Examples of certain circumstance


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First, there is the problem of specifying what the appropriate response is for a properly functioning person in a certaincircumstance.
It is conceivable that in a certaincircumstance there could be more than one appropriate response (it does partly depend on how broadly one construes the relevant circumstance).
We could owe our lives to fishermen in certaincircumstance; we knew that, and we maintained good relations with them.
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Clause 11 places a duty on rating authorities to recover rates from the owner rather than the tenant of a property in certaincircumstance.
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It may be that they would reach the conclusion that there was no case for protecting a theatre in a certaincircumstance and that planning permission should not be withheld.
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In certain patients under certain circumstances, these drugs may actively hasten death although no specific instance of this in any donor has been reported.
These have shown that, under certain circumstances, one or more elements stimulated bacterial regrowth or had growth-inhibiting effects.
However, this strategy is important and very powerful in certain circumstances.
The distinctive clothing imposed upon them advertised their profession and in certain circumstances might not have been unwelcome.
In certain circumstances, however, elders adopted more liberal views of elopement.
First, children as young as three years can create metaphoric compounds, at least in certain circumstances.
There are good reasons for dealing with algebraic languages, rather than languages with binders, under certain circumstances; particularly in connection with equational reasoning.
We will see in what follows that glides can bear this feature under certain circumstances.
Even pain-rejecting modern society will demand impassivity under certain circumstances.
It just means that in certain circumstances, or populations, a virtuous person may choose to be vicious as a means of exhibiting some other virtue.
First, sceptics about the possibilities for rapid state transformation are wrong, at least under certain circumstances.
Indeed, as has been argued elsewhere,96 a carefully designed credibilityenhancing rules-based regime can, under certain circumstances, expand room to manoeuvre.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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