"I'm not going to exclude someone from an evaluation because they're playing overseas," Ellis said.
"We must exclude someone from our gathering, or we shall be left with nothing".
As is the way of these things, the arguments that serve to include them simultaneously serve to exclude someone else.
Irresponsibility on such a grand scale does not exclude someone from the status of heroic outsider, a category also available to self-destructive rock stars.
The idea that living with a mental illness would exclude someone from a job they were capable of doing needs to be challenged, she suggests.
Even if a child is anemic, as many teenage girls and young women are, this is not a reason to exclude someone from an activity, he said.
Special advocates are used in national security cases, notably in hearings of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac), which hears challenges to decisions by the Home Office to deport or exclude someone from the UK.
Having no home and no money should not exclude someone from voting, according to two national groups that are trying to register thousands of homeless people to vote in the presidential election.
Martin E. Marty, a Lutheran pastor and long-time professor of theology at the Theological Seminary of the University of Chicago, put it perfectly many years ago when he wrote "a bill of particulars against the political use of the term," which, he said, is designed to exclude someone.
"The most heartening thing in all of this, though, is seeing that they're expanding their definition of what counts as a threat beyond the hyper-narrow 'specific threats' definition that tends to require things like explicit plans on how someone is going to murder you, but would exclude someone saying that they are going to murder you," Quinn added.
The object of the game is to exclude someone so you will not become a victim.
