GPs were given special training in diagnosing depression, the suicide rate dropped by two-thirds.
Patients prone to certain stones are given special diets or medications to prevent them.
But emergency services are being maintained and union members have been given special permission to cross picket lines.
Historically, anyone made a Freeman of the Borough of Scarborough was exempt from tolls and given special privileges.
The BBC was among those given special access, on a government flight.
In fact, Goldman Sachs has been treated just like all of the other banks in this affair, not given special treatment at all.
Given the tropical heat, all the lawyers have been given special permission by Mr Justice Lindsay not to wear their traditional outfit of wigs and gowns.
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Prof Zhimulev also favours Mr Ivanov because as deputy prime minister he has been given special responsibility for science and technology as well as the military-industrial complex.
Testing is banned during the season so Ferrari wrote to the nine other Formula One teams to request permission for the seven-time champion to be given special dispensation.
Six zones, including those in Liverpool and The Humber, have been given special treatment in the form of 100% tax relief for companies investing in plant and equipment.
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Nel also stressed that Pistorius shouldn't be given special treatment.
The same is true for sexual relations, where the law has been framed to be realistic about the activities of young people but they have been given special protections in certain circumstances.
By contrast, asylum seekers who applied after 1995 will not be given special consideration, and the process of appeal will be tightened up to prevent a new backlog building up.
The Excelsior Rotterdam forward, who shone at last year's U20 World Cup, was only allowed to join the camp in Brazil after being given special permission by his Dutch club.
The modern United States has a few examples of governments trying to perform commercial activities, but increasingly we suffer from the opposite problem: formally private institutions given special legal privileges by the state.
While the celebrations continued across Spain, the Dutch team were also given special treatment as they returned home on Monday and were escorted through Dutch airspace by two fighter jets, one of them orange.
One spouse could be given special powers, such as a power to withdraw a fixed amount of trust property each year or a power to appoint trust property (in equal or unequal shares) among your descendants.
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Applicants with backgrounds in law enforcement and the military are given special preference, but the positions are open to anyone with a college degree or three years of professional experience who proves up to the job, Minerly said.
Walker has long claimed that these unions were given special treatment because the state could not afford a strike or any disruption of the critical services provided by police and firefighters as a result of being saddled with the restrictions placed on the general service unions.
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Mr Takulla has also been given a special pass to watch the parade from the VIP gallery.
There, he was given his special gift: the services of the dwarf, Dori, for the rest of the day.
This is a bigger problem for Reclast, she notes, because the drug has to be given at special infusion centers.
However, writing in a blog post today, the culture secretary Maria Miller said DCMS budgets must not be given "special protection".
The draft plan sets out policies for Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, which was given its special status nearly three years ago.
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Spain's foreign ministry said that it was "taking all possible steps so that Haitian minors who have been adopted by Spanish families can travel to Spain given the special conditions affecting Haiti, " according to the AFP news agency.
Kot's passion is given a special kind of quirkiness by the fact that he addresses the camera sporting a huge Afro hairdo and 1970s shades that would make funk musician Bootsy Collins look like he were in his Sunday best.
At the 2003 capitalist ball Mart Laar, a former prime minister of Estonia, was given a special award to celebrate the fact that, in 1994, his country had become the first in Europe to introduce a flat tax, of 26%.
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