"You are doing the best you can in terrible circumstances!"
When the terrible circumstances began to slip beyond human control, the operators sometimes reached further.
We have been reduced to this state by terrible circumstances.
I confess to a certain pride in having drawn it under such terrible circumstances without killing her.
Alhazred died - or disappeared - under terrible circumstances in the year 738.
It's based on a 1912 photograph taken in Armenia, where he was born, a few years before his mother died, under terrible circumstances.
Nevertheless, the garrison held out for nine months despite the terrible circumstances and the high casualties.
As one reads about the terrible circumstances in which many of the children live, there are questions that beg to be asked.
"I believe my son was set up, in terrible circumstances," he said.
We don't know how, or where, only that it was under very strange and terrible circumstances.