I therefore do not regard provocation as a mitigating factor.

因此我不认为遭受挑衅可以作为减轻惩罚的因素。

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They're supposed to balance that against his mitigating factor which is that Moussaoui may be nuts.

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The principal mitigating factor is that year-over-year increases lately have been from year-ago levels that were significantly negative.

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Another mitigating factor is that trade within the Asian region has been growing even faster than exports to America.

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