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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a matter of exclusively" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not a commonly used expression and may lead to confusion due to its awkward construction.
Example: "This decision is a matter of exclusively following the guidelines set forth by the committee."
Alternatives: "a question of solely" or "a case of only".
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Lawyers would treat the agreement as mixed if, for instance, it covered not just trade – a matter of exclusively EU responsibility – but also common foreign and security policy, for which member states are also liable.
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Judge Stewart Dalzell, in upholding the new law in the church's lawsuit, acknowledged that the law "reaches down to what has traditionally been a matter of almost exclusively local concern".
The legislation does not segregate private schools, or their pupils, as its beneficiaries or attempt to interfere with any matters of exclusively private concern.
There is a consensus that the split is mostly, though hardly exclusively, a matter of blacks' pulling away.
Responding to the threat of election hacking isn't exclusively a matter of diplomatic intrigue or international sanctions.
We also need to appreciate that marginalisation is not exclusively a matter of minority status on the basis of gender, ethnicity and race or sexuality but that it also involves social class, geographical location and family status as well.
Like the multiplicity in a column with infinite mass-transfer rates, that in an infinitely long column with finite mass-transfer rate is exclusively a matter of phase-equilibrium and flow-rate and hold-up ratios and is independent of mass-transfer effects.
The sparse comments on the provision in the legislative history persuade me that Congress intended the description of "representatives for the purposes of collective bargaining or the adjustment of grievances" to refer to a category of employer representatives whose selection was exclusively a matter of management prerogative.
While Leibniz had already paved the way for the conception of space and time as exclusively a matter of relations between events, Mach went still further in attacking the arguments of Newton in favour of a dynamic and absolute space and time.
In fact, it appears she was not an abused child at all, that her upbringing was truly as average and uneventful as she said it was". Not that child abuse or family violence are exclusively a matter of "upbringing" come home to roost.
The commission's president, Jean-Claude Juncker, has said that for EU members trade talks are "exclusively a matter of the EU", and trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström reiterated in Davos last week that trade negotiations before Britain leaves the bloc – expected to be by March 2019 – were not permitted.
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