In the federal system, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32 ( i )( 4 ) provides that the court must " address the defendant personally in order to permit the defendant to speak or present any information to mitigate the sentence.

The official positions of defendants as heads of state or holders of high government offices were not to free them from responsibility or mitigate their punishment ; nor was the fact that a defendant acted pursuant to an order of a superior to excuse him from responsibility, although it might be considered by the IMT in mitigation of punishment.

In order to mitigate the impact of such income reductions, the island's governments have announced several efforts to diversify the island's agricultural production.

Environmental groups and NGOs were incorporated in the lending of the bank in order to mitigate the effects of the past that prompted such harsh criticism.

In order to further diversify their investments and mitigate the risks associated with inflationary debasement of currencies, an increasing number of pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are allocating more capital to real assets such as a commodities and commodity-related infrastructure.

In order to further diversify their investments and mitigate the risks associated with inflationary debasement of currencies, an increasing number of pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are allocating more capital to non-listed assets such as a commodities and commodity-related infrastructure.

A rocket launch site is built as far as possible away from major population centers in order to mitigate risk to bystanders should a rocket experience a catastrophic failure.

Others included " Desert Lion ," " Desert Badger ," " Desert Viper ," and " Desert Raptor " and were not used in order to mitigate an offensive perception of the operation, although the reference to Rommel was not thought of beforehand.

The authorities at Speenhamland approved a means-tested sliding-scale of wage supplements in order to mitigate the worst effects of rural poverty.

As the society grows, problems arise, and the people meet to make regulations in order to mitigate the problems.

Tankmixing pesticides is the combination of two or more pesticides with different modes of action in order to improve individual pesticide application results and delay the onset of or mitigate existing pest resistance.

In order to mitigate the aggravating congestion problem, since June 30, 2008 the road space rationing program was expanded to include and restrict trucks and light commercial vehicles.

On a national level, he attended intercantonal conferences on trade, customs, and postal services, and, in 1847, received a mandate to mitigate a peaceful change to liberal order in the Valais after its defeat in the War of the Sonderbund.

In order to mitigate the generation of additional space debris, a number of measures have been proposed.

Until the nineteenth century, for many crimes the sentence was mandatory and was formally pronounced in court immediately upon conviction ; but the royal judges and HM government were given powers to exercise the royal prerogative of mercy out of court, in order to mitigate the rigour of the law.

All Colombian cities were directed to promote prevention planning in order to mitigate the consequences of natural disasters, and evacuations due to volcanic hazards have been carried out.

In order to mitigate this risk, SFA must be fully integrated in all departments that deal with customer service management.

Many servers, however, implement a maximum number of simultaneous connections per client in order to mitigate this.

However, he argued that societies must take strong action to curb population growth in order to mitigate future disasters both ecological and social.

In order to mitigate the hardships likely to arise from the partition of a district which was essentially an economic unit, it was decided, on the recommendation of the Council of the League of Nations, that German and Polish delegates, under a chairman appointed by the Council of the League, should draw up economic regulations as well as a statute for the protection of minorities, which were to have a duration of fifteen years.

In order to mitigate rising levels of starvation and assuage peasant discontent, grain was speedily imported from Sicily through Talamone, were taken from the city purse by the Florentine commune to aid the relief effort, and all the city's bakers had their ovens requisitioned by the government so that loaves of bread could be sold at affordable prices to the riotous and starving poor.

The Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit is a Canadian Forces unit, under the direction of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, charged with supporting " the Government of Canada in order to prevent, control and mitigate CBRN threats to Canada, Canadians and Canadian interests.

In an attempt to mitigate these problems, Manuel de Arriaga wrote to the three party leaders ( Camacho, Afonso Costa and António José de Almeida ) in order to come to an accord and form a unity government, but Afonso Costa did not react well to the proposal.

The tracks above them are supported by through girders with four half-inch () expansion joints at their intersection with the supporting members in order to mitigate stress to the concrete caused by vibrations from passing trains.

In an attempt to address this, the Government entered into the Narcotics Agreement of 1984 and the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty of 1986 with the United States, in order to reduce the use of their facilities associated with these activities.

One such fatal poison is secretly administered by the Harkonnens to Thufir Hawat, the Mentat of House Atreides, in order to keep Hawat's allegiance as the only provider of the antidote ( in the 1984 movie version, it is shown that Hawat has to milk a gruesome captive cat for the antidote every day ).

* 1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner was deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of airplane crashes.

* 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

North American-spec 1983 and 1984 S models used, among other differences, smaller valves, milder camshafts, narrower intake manifolds, and additional pollution equipment in order to meet emissions regulations, and were limited to 234 hp ( 174 kW / 230 PS ) as a result.

#: Around 1983 – 1984 a new color identification standard (" Line SECAM or SECAM-H ") has been introduced in order to make more space available inside the signal for adding teletext information ( originally according to the Antiope standard ).

In 2010, several liberal congressmen raised accusations about the FSLN presumably attempting to buy votes in order to pass constitutional reforms that would allow Ortega to run for office for the 6th time since 1984.

In 1984, Powell claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency had murdered Earl Mountbatten of Burma and that the deaths of the MPs Airey Neave and Robert Bradford were carried out by the USA in order to stop Neave's policy of integration for Northern Ireland.

In order to achieve more intense and controllable radiation, DORIS was upgraded in 1984 with wigglers and undulators.

On a trip to Inner Mongolia in 1984, Hu publicly suggested that Chinese people might start eating in a Western way ( with forks and knives, on individual plates ) in order to prevent communicable diseases.

By early 1984, work on Mir had ground to a halt while all resources were being put into the Buran programme in order to prepare the Buran spacecraft for flight testing.

It was subsequently modernized again in 1983 – 1984 in order to extend the dam.

Many similar Babcock and Wilcox reactors on order were canceled ; in total, 51 American nuclear reactors were canceled from 1980 – 1984.

The flare tower could only handle a quarter of the gas that leaked in 1984, and moreover it was out of order at the time of the incident.

Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie ( Breda ) manufactured the second order of 76 cars delivered in 1983 and 1984.

A third order of 288 cars, also from Breda, were delivered between 1984 and 1988.

By 1984, however, Walter Wriston concluded “ the bank of the future already exists, and it ’ s called Merrill Lynch .” In 1986 when major bank holding companies threatened to stop operating commercial banks in order to obtain the “ competitive advantages ” enjoyed by Sears and Merrill Lynch, FDIC Chairman William Seidman warned that could create “ chaos .”

The group formed a strong local following but in order to further their career the band made the all important decision to move to Los Angeles on 6 March 1984 and also changed the name of the group from Paris to Poison.

Fred Camper's SN ( 1984, first screening 2002 ) uses coin-flipping for one section to determine which three of 16 possible reels to screen and what order they should go in ( 3360 permutations ).

In 1984, the FTC began to regulate the funeral home industry in order to protect consumers from deceptive practices.

In September 1984, the program was renamed World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in order to reflect its sole anchor and senior editor.

On 6 March 1984, the National Coal Board announced that the agreement reached after the 1974 strike had become obsolete, and that in order to rationalise government subsidisation of industry they intended to close 20 coal mines.

Ochromonadales, promoted to an order Pedinellales by Zimmerman in 1984.

By July 1984, Orion had yet to generate a big hit since taking over Filmways and announced intentions to invest $ 100 million in order to release 12 to 16 movies a year.

A legal definition for the term " puppy mill " was established in Avenson v. Zegart in 1984: " a dog breeding operation in which the health of the dogs is disregarded in order to maintain a low overhead and maximize profits.