Sentence examples for exceptional action from inspiring English sources

In refusing to permit the bill to be debated or voted on, Ayatollah Khamenei took the exceptional action of circumventing the normal institutional checks on legislative power.

Addition of a new course after the deadline The election of a new course after the deadline for submitting a course schedule will not be permitted save by exceptional action of the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing.

A schedule received more than two weeks after it is due will be accepted only by exceptional action of the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing and will be subject to an increased fine or other penalty.

The timely arrival of off-screen voices and noises that illustrate intentionally vague stagings, the portentous fades and cuts that stoke suspense at the price of knowledge and insight squeeze the exceptional action into the cheap anticipations of an unexceptional thriller.

And when you point out that it doesn't work that way, that money is a social convention meant to deal with an imperfect world, and that dealing with that imperfect world sometimes means that central banks need to take exceptional action, they fly into a rage.

A crisis meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the west's seven leading economies last night agreed to take "urgent and exceptional action" to bail out banks amid fears that a fresh wave of panic had pushed the global financial system to the brink of collapse.

Using various kinds of experimental equipment that he devised, he trained laboratory animals to perform complex and sometimes quite exceptional actions.

The Treasury could take steps to buy time, but those "exceptional actions" would delay default by no more than eight weeks, officials said.

He listed several "exceptional actions" that the Treasury could take to delay hitting the limit — as the Clinton administration under former Secretary Robert E. Rubin did in the mid-1990s when it faced a recalcitrant Republican-controlled Congress.

Can he be stopped in time is the classic question in this formulaic but exceptional action-packed thriller.

This incident occurred in November 2009, but the exceptional actions of these inmates warrants renewed applause.