mitigation

The Senate should embrace it as a responsible pain-mitigation measure.

But this attention has focused overwhelmingly on the adaptation side of the challenge, while ignoring the mitigation imperative.

(To Ken Lewis of Bank of America):  Have you offshored some of your loss mitigation specialists?

He can plead in mitigation that he had no choice—and if that is so, look for another Republican defeat in 2016.

Mark shut the mitigation phase down,” Carr told The Daily Beast, “because it was a freak show.

Its only mitigation is that it is carried on under the set of rules represented by the state and the law.

He never was a man to whom a successful appeal for the slightest mitigation of justice could have been made.

Prussia in her despair had sent one agent after another to Paris in order to secure some mitigation of Napoleon's demands.

Heaven would not do this cruel wrong without offering some apology—some mitigation.

The very absence of all claim to mitigation, makes it impossible to mistake the motive to lenity in his case.