When we left the club, my daughter asked me what the word "exclusive" meant.
"Congress appears clearly to have intended to — and did — establish the exclusive means for foreign intelligence activities to be conducted," the judge wrote.
Gover emailed me to say: "Mr Darcey seems to know what redistribution is, but do his colleagues know what exclusive means?
The birds became the exclusive means of sending stories back, via a distant pigeon loft, to my employers at the time, the Reuters News Agency.
The measure would reaffirm FISA as the exclusive means for the president to order wiretaps through court warrants, but it would also provide legal immunity to phone companies involved in the eavesdropping program.
Prosecutors said in a court filing that Apple had the "exclusive" means to bypass the security features on the phone, but that the company had "declined to provide that assistance voluntarily".
Perhaps the most important concession that Democratic leaders claimed was an affirmation that the intelligence restrictions were the "exclusive" means for the executive branch to conduct wiretapping operations in terrorism and espionage cases.
Early in the 18th century, Tsar Peter I the Great abolished the rank and title of boyar and made state service the exclusive means of attaining a high position in the bureaucratic hierarchy.
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in California said Wednesday that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the "exclusive" means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, and he rejected the government's claim that the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief trumped that law.
The final bill includes a reaffirmation that the FISA law is the "exclusive" means of conducting intelligence wiretaps — a provision that Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House speaker, and other Democrats insisted would prevent Mr. Bush or any future president from evading court scrutiny in the way they say that the N.S.A. program did.
The standardized uptake value (SUV) is the nearly exclusive means for quantitative evaluation of clinical [18F-]fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) whole body investigations.
