Sentence examples for exceptional measure from inspiring English sources

"It's a symbolic measure, an exceptional measure in exceptional times.

The spokesman for Mr. Blair said, "This is an exceptional measure, but these are exceptional times.

"I would not dispute that it is an exceptional measure to make law retrospective, but I think it shows the determination of the government".

Although it was stated that this was an exceptional measure and that the NEP would continue, it was carried out as a class-war operation.

(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.

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.

"This may at times require exceptional measures.

Valls promised "exceptional measures" and an "implacable response".

"These difficult conditions can be described as exceptional conditions, which therefore require exceptional measures," he said.

European leaders know full well that the exceptional events since Sept. 11 call for exceptional measures.

"We are facing exceptional times, and we are taking exceptional measures".