1.   Although lawyers for Borodin had argued that those circumstances should include the fact that he was vital to Russian affairs of state, the judge did not agree.

2.   Aggravating circumstances include previous murder convictions.

3.   Coercive circumstances need not include physical force, the court said.

4.   Those circumstances include a team that has no undisputed leader, and no player of All-Star caliber.

5.   Those circumstances included the notoriously hard-to-handle batsuits and other costumes.

6.   He made clear that those circumstances include a diplomatic standoff over tension on the Russian-Georgian border.

7.   Such unforeseen circumstances might include a natural disaster such as Hurricane Andrew, where compliance with the law would be impossible.

8.   Such circumstances would include an assault with a knife.