For many years, the majority of scholars studying think tanks considered them a uniquely American phenomenon that boomed in the United States because of the perceived exceptionality of its political system and its rich tradition of private rather than public funding, which benefited think tanks.
Lord Judge, sitting with Mrs Justice Swift and Mr Justice Sweeney, described Munir Hussain's case as one of "true exceptionality" and announced: "The plain, simple reality is that Munir Hussain was acting under the continuing influence of extreme provocation.
Given the frank exceptionality of those numbers, there is a specious argument to make here about resonance and communion and what it means, qualitatively speaking, to reach huge numbers of people with your art.
The first is to describe the event in a way that is adequate to its exceptionality.
When they began to multitask, that exceptionality became all the more apparent.
Hence, if sex is to be sustained as a "delightful adventure" or a "miraculous herb of life", it has to be protected from devaluation... Less we become stranded with a sexual life that is equated with nutrition, we must safeguard its exceptionality.
If one thing is clear and encouraging in President Obama's proposals, it is the recognition of Apollo's exceptionality.
It was on this holiday four years ago that Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, then the president, seemed to obliquely compare United States policy to the ideology of the Third Reich, saying contemporary threats showed "the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionality and diktat in the world".
For Kellogg, the process of awakening to cetacean exceptionality was a grisly one.
It added to a feeling of exceptionality among residents of Mexico City — the only place in this country where abortion is legal and gay couples can marry.
D: Has that changed since the 1950s, when the Neapolitan story cycle starts, or do you think it's become more entrenched – the idea that only obvious exceptionality among the "lower classes" should be rewarded?
