There is constant talk of the exceptional nature of the current emergency, but the authorities have always taken this line.
She was given a two-year suspended sentence as an acknowledgment of the "exceptional nature" of her case and the "unbearable pressure" she had been under.
The prime minister's official spokesman said that Cameron and Theresa May had asked the Met to review the evidence in response to a request by the McCann family because of the "exceptional" nature of the case.
Ecotourism is not simply travel through areas of exceptional natural beauty, even if such travels are considered to be responsible and sustainable - that is nature tourism.
In their decision, judges said that the trial of the two men was of an exceptional nature and the core of it must be held in private.
Mr. Scalise said that under Japanese law governing compensation for nuclear damage, companies were liable for the cost of all nuclear accidents resulting from reactor operations except when the accidents were provoked by a "grave natural disaster of an exceptional nature or by an insurrection".
This grant was of an exceptional nature, significantly over and above our standard grants.
