excepted

Pfeiffer explained that employees of the FBI and CIA are in the excepted service because of concerns about espionage, criminal activity and malfeasance.

With the projected fall in the school-age population, it appears the challenge for the state sector to accommodate potential extra children is one, local pinch points excepted, that it can largely manage.

Westminster also has control over issues which affect the UK as a whole, known as reserved or excepted matters.

Westminster also has control over issues which affect the UK as a whole, known as reserved or excepted matters.

The first of today’s 35,000 people excepted here rushed through the gates.