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.

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 order to mitigate his 1984 arrest in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for money laundering and Quaalude smuggling, he agreed to testify against his former employers and associates in the drug trade, putting several of them in jail.

) and the offence is category 4 ( the production of 9 plants or less, assuming 40g or less per plant ) the starting point for sentencing is a ' band c fine ' ( 150 % of your weekly income, after tax ), decreasing to ' discharge ' or increasing to ' low level community order ' ( community service, curfew, attendance centre or similar for a small amount of time ) depending on other mitigating or aggravating factors such as theft of electricity, the presence of children or whether the offender has grown the plants for use in the treatment of a valid medical condition.

Further aggravating the plight of the poor, in order to control inflation Chamorro was forced to cut government spending by eliminating social programs, particularly for females, though she did encourage the development of a strong educational system.

In order for the defendant to be eligible for the death penalty, the jury needed to find the existence of one of ten aggravating factors:

In order to narrow the class of death penalty-eligible defendants as required by Furman, the Texas Legislature did not adopt the " aggravating factors " approach outlined by the Model Penal Code, Instead, it chose to modify and severely narrow the legal definition of " capital murder ", thus requiring certain objective elements to be present before one could be charged with capital murder and thus eligible for the death penalty.

Luanda's roads are in a poor state of repair, but are currently undergoing a massive reconstruction process by the government in order to relieve traffic congestion in the city.

Due to network congestion, traffic load balancing, or other unpredictable network behavior, IP packets can be lost, duplicated, or delivered out of order.

Internet service providers ( ISP ) use a technology known as deep packet inspection in order to regulate network congestion and lessen Internet bottlenecks.

These lanes help reduce the number of cars on the highway and thus reduces pollution and traffic congestion by promoting the use of carpooling in order to be able to use these lanes.

In 2007 a congestion pricing scheme was implemented, the Controlled Vehicular Access system, in order to reduce long-term parking stays and traffic while promoting business in the city.

In order to alleviate traffic congestion, the Boulevard was planned along this abandoned land, and completed on 25 April 1973 under the presidency of Georges Pompidou.

There are currently plans to modify or eliminate the three traffic circles along Route 12 in Flemington in order to ease traffic congestion along the route.

Several new roads have either been built or are in planning stages in order to ease traffic congestion to and from the Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point communities.

In the mid 1990s, a series of new loop roads and side streets were approved in Prince Frederick in order to divert local traffic off of Route 2-4 and alleivate thru-traffic congestion.

Austrian 1st Korps was to move out of Wagram and advance along the Russbach, with II Korps ordered to remain in place, in order to avoid congestion, and simply provide artillery support.

In June 1958, the London County Council proposed making use of the subway for light traffic from Waterloo Bridge in order to reduce traffic congestion at its junction with Strand and, in April 1962, the go-ahead was given for part of the southern end of the subway to be used.

Whilst many local tourism authorities still issue licenses for rickshaw drivers to carry passengers, authorities in China are tightening rules in order to alleviate cheating of tourists ( many rickshaw drivers are renowned for over-charging non-locals and foreign tourists ) and to reduce traffic congestion ( e. g. a typical Chinese cycle-rickshaw will travel at less than 10kmh and is wide enough to fill an entire traffic or bicycle lane and therefore are blamed as a major cause of traffic congestion ), and have been banned in many cities already.

Hence, congestion pricing is premised on a basic economic concept: charge a price in order to allocate a scarce resource to its most valuable use, as evidenced by users ' willingness to pay for the resource ".

The scheme gives users two choices: ( 1 ) transit by order of arrival on a first-come first-served basis, as the canal historically has operated ; or ( 2 ) booked service for a fee — a congestion charge.

This addition would add to the airport's four existing parallel runways and its two cross-wind runways in order to alleviate future congestion.

When ECN is successfully negotiated, an ECN-aware router may set a mark in the IP header instead of dropping a packet in order to signal impending congestion.

At the receiving endpoint, this congestion indication is handled by the upper layer protocol ( transport layer protocol ) and needs to be echoed back to the transmitting node in order to signal it to reduce its transmission rate.

This allows intermediate routers that support ECN to mark those IP packets with the CE codepoint instead of dropping them in order to signal impending congestion.

* new reliance on public transportation systems in order to reduce vehicle emissions, congestion in cities and the health problems caused by polluted air and smog

In order to provide long-term relief to the traffic congestion at Lo Wu, various projects have been approved and endorsed.

This system allows operators to open and close any lane to traffic in order to help manage congestion or an incident.

Also, the number of MTR trains departing from Lo Wu was increased in order to reduce congestion.

It was the also first to have completely independent rail lines built around it, in order to ease traffic congestion.