Agreements of a commercial nature carry the opposite presumption to social agreements; parties involved are presumed to create legal relations, unless the circumstances or nature of an agreement preclude this.

In addition, "the unique circumstances which led to his conviction," precluded any repetition of the conduct, the judge said.

They are also useful in base stations where circumstances preclude the use of a ground-plane antenna.

I AM really sorry,' Bernard Westcott wrote to me early in May, 'that circumstances preclude well-deserved official congratulations to your village on the success of the operation to date.

It has been pointed out, however, that these circumstances did not preclude Ecuador from attempting to lay claim to territories it still considered its own.

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that the search was invalid because the police had not demonstrated that exigent circumstances precluded getting a warrant.

Therefore 'no personal circumstances would preclude my giving thought to coming to London'.

The circumstances pretty much preclude us as prosecutors from bringing a case.

He sighed, not being a vindictive man, but wishing that circumstance did not preclude him pulling the trigger himself.

But circumstances precluded that.