It is a six-monthly handing over of the baton that elicits no excitement at all in normal circumstances, but these days the circumstances are not quite normal.

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At this time there are no suspicious circumstances.

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They acquired their companies roughly a decade ago, in circumstances that bore no scrutiny at all.

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Nevertheless, what the American government is at pains to establish is that there are no circumstances, no matter how grievous, in which an American would be subject to ICC jurisdiction.

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In a statement it said that although the five major inquiries held into the hospital had highlighted unacceptable standards of care, "at that time there was no evidence that the circumstances of any of the tragic deaths constituted a criminal offence under the law".

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But at the time I was twenty-eight years old and under no circumstances could I consider myself a young writer.

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We are like a startup, except no one who truly values working at a startup would work under these circumstances.

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Craig Bellamy can still play at a higher level, no doubt about that, I just think it's the circumstances he finds himself in are a bit unfortunate.

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Yet a third group wants a total reform of the U.S. tax code, a complex document of thousands of pages full of loopholes, exemptions and special breaks for special circumstances, which allow some colossal U.S. corporations to pay no tax at all.

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