Sentence examples for get exempted from inspiring English sources

"If you can prove mental retardation, you can get exempted, but mental illness alone is not an exemption to the death penalty," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.

Yet America's meat industry still plainly has to pay more attention to what it feeds its animals and how it kills them.On the feeding side, giving cattle ruminant-derived products such as bone meal was banned in 1997, but blood and gelatin managed somehow to get exempted.

"But if there's one thing we should agree on, it's that they are not so special that they should get exempted from the state laws that all the small banks have to follow".

Defense gets exempted because nobody expects bombs to be a good business proposition.

"those patients probably get exempt from their registers because they are housebound.........'....cause I think that if you prove that you've written or invited them three times and they haven't come in then you can exempt them".

It's like they are so frightened of getting it wrong they have exempted themselves from being fashionable".

For instance, tax Gypsies and prostitutes (the proposer was under the impression that Gypsies were – like Prince Charles – exempt from tax); get free labour from prisoners or the unemployed; make all patients pay for prescriptions; make alcoholics pay for NHS care; review hospital menus so that you only get a pudding at Christmas, and "a simple lunch of soup and sandwiches or wheaten bread".

The synod appealed to the head of the Russian church, Patriarch Kirill, to get Greece exempted from the counter-sanctions which Russia has imposed on the European Union so that Greek exports can continue flowing to Russia.

He enlisted Vargas Llosa, Norman Mailer and American PEN, the writers' association, in a campaign, joined by Senator William Fulbright, to get him exempted from the list barring suspected communists (including Iris Murdoch, García Márquez, Graham Greene, Dario Fo and Simone Signoret) from the US.

A number of recent bills designed to ban Internet gambling included fantasy sports until the industry lobbied to get it exempted from proposed legislation.

Not only has it prevented action on scores of gun control bills, but it has managed to get itself exempted from other seemingly unrelated legislation.