Sentence examples for exceptional basis from inspiring English sources

"We could, on an exceptional basis, take it to 15,000 by adding to the stands at either end of the ground," said the chairman Nigel Wray.

4. The use of force to avert overwhelming humanitarian catastrophe has been emerging as a further, and exceptional, basis for the use of force.

We gave them a number of extensions on an exceptional basis to allow them to try to secure a job that would allow them to meet the immigration rules.

Mr. Eckhard said the original decision was made on an exceptional basis because Mr. Sevan was retired and not subject to Mr. Annan's instructions to staff members to cooperate with the Volcker panel.

So governments of all colours have long considered that military action, on an exceptional basis, where necessary and proportionate, and as a last resort, to avert an overwhelming humanitarian catastrophe is permissible under international law.

Primary care trusts (PCTs), which decide whether to pay for a non-approved drug for an individual patient on an "exceptional" basis, must have guidance so that they all make their decisions on the same basis and the same information.

Rather, theory is the core basis of exceptional practice.

He said that "a number of communication service providers, big internet companies, many of whom are American, have raised questions about... the right of the intelligence agencies on our behalf, in exceptional circumstances, on the basis of a warrant signed by a secretary of state, to intercept a telephone call or an email, to actually listen so you can hear the content".

The judgment holds that discretionary housing payments (DHPs), allocated by local authorities on the basis of exceptional housing need, are an adequate and sensible solution to the hardship faced by disabled people and their families who, for example, need the extra bedroom, have adapted homes or for whom there is no suitable alternative accommodation available.

An agricultural crop in which the biomass (total dry weight) stores as much as 1 percent of total solar energy received on an annual areawide basis is exceptional, although a few cases of higher yields (perhaps as much as 3.5 percent in sugarcane) have been reported.

In recent years, the city has granted approvals on a building-by-building basis for exceptional cases in Midtown, as it might now do with a new office building that Norman Foster is designing at 425 Park Avenue, near 55th Street, which looks to be a significant addition to the city's architecture.