The phrase 'were explicitly excluded' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that certain entities or items were singled out and deliberately excluded from a group or list. For example, "The members of the committee were all required to submit a list of potential candidates, however individuals with political affiliations were explicitly excluded."
No, it did what it was tasked to do and minimum staffing levels were explicitly excluded from its brief, but much more is needed to consistently ensure safe nurse staffing levels in the NHS.
While the law gave the bureau authority over a wide swath of financial businesses — everything from big banks to payday lenders and mortgage companies — most small businesses were explicitly excluded from its purview.
While neither Nazis nor Communists were explicitly excluded from the United States under this law, consular practice was to require all visa applicants to swear an oath of non-allegiance to Communism, setting the stage for an individual's exclusion and deportation by way of fraud in the event a person was subsequently identified as a Communist.
Asians were explicitly excluded from whiteness and, hence, not eligible for citizenship.
Food and medicine were explicitly excluded.
However, already-ongoing conflicts, as of the signing of the Pact, were explicitly excluded.
Victims of rape and incest are explicitly excluded.
The Libyans were aggrieved, he said, that the Scottish government wanted Megrahi to be explicitly excluded from the PTA.
They would be explicitly excluded from new tax credits intended to make premiums affordable for people who make up to four times the federal poverty level -- or $88,200 for a family of four.
This is already the case for scientific papers published by researchers at the N.I.H. campus in Bethesda, Md., whose work, as government employees, has been explicitly excluded from copyright protection since 1976.
And this is the problem with the electoral law: Why would militias, whose members can vote and thus express themselves as a powerful bloc, disband so their members can join the military, which is explicitly excluded from elections?
