For that reason, the Pentagon is seeking a blanket exemption from environmental laws.

BP and other companies were also given a blanket exemption from having to provide environmental impact statements.

But the secretary of the Army said there would be no blanket exemptions.

"We in no way want to grant blanket exemptions to anybody."

By cooperating at the base level, we can address any challenges without the need for blanket exemptions to key environmental laws.

At the same time the bill gives sensitive police and government computer files a blanket exemption.

Under the new rule, companies will no longer be given blanket exemptions.

He gave him a blanket exemption, which would make nonsense of the whole system.

The existing blanket exemptions, as applied, for example, to professional bodies, was to be ended.

The commission, she said, was trying to "issue a blanket exemption for illegal behavior," not confined to a few individual cases.