If it ever seemed there was, prior to the televised democratizing of the process, that's because the formula for "being discovered" and making it big as a recording artist was difficult and exclusive.
Rather than finding ways to make adoption and fostering more difficult and exclusive, Virginia's legislators would be better served to focus on the needs of children and do everything they can to find the most qualified and competent adoptive and foster parents to care for the state's most vulnerable and needy children.
For reasons that'll never be made entirely clear, there are people out there who want DJing to be difficult and exclusive, who want it to be an activity imbued with the kind of significance reserved for neurologists and chip shop owners.
It was also difficult recruiting exclusive non computer users as controls for this study.
The essayist should possess the virtues that one of the most influential English essayists, Matthew Arnold, praised in Culture and Anarchy (1869): "a passion... to divest knowledge of all that was harsh, uncouth, difficult, abstract, professional, exclusive; to humanize it".
Increasing numbers of mothers are working outside the home, which can make it difficult to continue exclusive breastfeeding.
#Eatclean made healthy eating seem like something "expensive, exclusive and difficult to achieve", as Anthony Warner writes.
Membership is not particularly expensive -- less than $200 a year -- but being accepted is as difficult as joining an exclusive country club.
ATHENS — Since he was elected a year ago, Prime Minister George Papandreou has struggled to satisfy two difficult and seemingly mutually exclusive constituencies: international financial markets and Greeks.
"If the trade union federation remains simply a political tool and doesn't play a more positive role in defending worker interests, then it will be increasingly difficult to defend its exclusive status," said a Chinese scholar of labor affairs who spoke on condition of anonymity.
