(iii) In these circumstances, and as an exceptional measure on grounds of overwhelming humanitarian necessity, military intervention to strike specific targets with the aim of deterring and disrupting further such attacks would be necessary and proportionate and therefore legally justifiable.
As for the legality of a military reprisal, British officials said it was permissible "as an exceptional measure on grounds of overwhelming humanitarian necessity". Any operation would be limited in duration and restricted to the sole objective of striking specific targets to deter Assad from launching chemical attacks and to alleviate human suffering.
Although Keynes has been widely criticised - especially by members of the Chicago School - for advocating irresponsible government spending financed by borrowing, in fact he was a firm believer in balanced budgets and regarded the proposals for programs of public works during the Depression as an exceptional measure to meet the needs of exceptional circumstances.
In such cases, children should be prosecuted only as an exceptional measure and not for membership of groups such as Isis in the absence of evidence of violent acts.
As an exceptional measure and given the unique situation of Greece the Commission will propose to increase the level of pre-financing by EUR 1bn to give an immediate boost to investment to be dealt with by the EU co-legislators.
The promotion of alternatives to detention is a priority for the justice system in Moldova, so that imprisonment of children becomes an exceptional measure.
The Chamber considered that the exceptional measure of re-opening the Prosecution's case-in-chief which was case-in-chief whichlay and whicase-in-chief whichage of a trial (begun three and a half years before the motion was made)—was warranted only where the probative value of the proposed evidencertainpartocausely high.
Achille Dello Russo, the police chief responsible for the Sicilian town in the shadow of Mount Etna, has adopted what he terms "exceptional measures of security with the massive deployment of men and means given the international situation since the Sept. 11 terror attacks".
These instruments are exceptional measures of general brain functioning [ 16].
Courts view anonymous juries as exceptional measures because of their potential to paint the defendant as a dangerous person from whom jurors need protection and thereby undermine the defendant's right to a presumption of innocence.
It was originally a "temporary and exceptional" measure designed to cope with an influx of asylum seekers from IndoChina and was limited to a maximum detention period of 273 days.
