How to use "circumstances" in a sentence

It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that Resolves and Ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.

The course here indicated will be followed unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper, and in every case and exigency my best discretion will be exercised according to circumstances actually existing, and with a view and a hope of a peaceful solution of the national troubles and the restoration of fraternal sympathies and affections.

While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument itself; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it

Leblanc asked Jondrette about his circumstances, and Jondrette smiled sadly as he invented lie after lie

Those might not be the precise circumstances, but they're pretty damn close to the truth."

And predicting that a runaway dog will be killed in traffic - that's just a reasonable assumption to make under the circumstances

He just went right off the rails," Dombey said, obviously embarrassed that one of his colleagues would lose control of himself under those circumstances

But she would never say why or under what circumstances she had killed Andre

I told him I was suspicious about the circumstances of Laura's death