Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

Except for the wine waiter in a restaurant -- always an inscrutable plenipotentiary unto himself, the genii with the keys to unlock the gates of the wine world are one's dealer, and the foreign shipper or negociant who in turn supplies him.

Except for those minutes in her room, he had lost touch with her as a reality.

Except for a few primitive types such as sponges ( which have no nervous system ) and jellyfish ( which have a nervous system consisting of a diffuse nerve net ), all living animals are bilaterians, meaning animals with a bilaterally symmetric body shape ( that is, left and right sides that are approximate mirror images of each other ).

Except for the city of Santo Domingo, which managed to maintain some legal exports, Dominican ports were forced to rely on contraband trade, which, along with livestock, became the sole source of livelihood for the island dwellers.

Except for one dubious example of a third-person feminine singular verb associated with Qoheleth, the subject always uses masculine nouns and even refers to his wife and women.

Except in the periods 1969 – 72 and 1976 – 82, when the Social Democratic party of Chancellor Brandt and Schmidt came in second in the elections, the Chancellor has always been the candidate of the largest party, usually supported by a coalition of two parties with a majority in the parliament.

Except for small sections of the borders with Israel and Syria, Jordan's international boundaries do not follow well-defined natural features of the terrain.

Except for special cases like the Lagrangian points, no method is known to solve the equations of motion for a system with four or more bodies.

Except for the Superman cartoons and the features sold to MCA ( to end up with Universal ), most television prints of these films have had their titles remade to remove most traces of their connection to Paramount – the original copyright lines were left intact on Popeye cartoons ( the Popeye cartoons have been restored for DVD release with the original Paramount titles ).

Except for the Cassidys, these are now owned by Castle Hill Productions, with video rights to some licensed to The Criterion Collection.

Except: if the tops are adjacent or essentially the same with both the straight and flush, ( e. g., A-9 vs. A-6, K-Q vs. K-J, or both tops are Q-x or lower ), then always play the stronger flush with essentially the same top.

Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").

Except for its Latin cognate regnum ( kingdom ) it is cognate with Scandinavian rike / rige,, and, as found in bishopric.

Except with their own consent, no judge or prosecutor can be dismissed, have his / her powers restricted, or be forced to retire.

Reynolds states " Except for a brief flirtation with Ch ' an in the early days of Buddhism in Tibet in the eighth century, the Tibetans exhibited almost no interest at all in Chinese Buddhism, except for translating a few Sutras from Chinese for which they did not possess Indian originals.

Except for Nebraska, which has unicameral legislature, all states have a bicameral legislature, with the upper house usually called the Senate and the lower house called the House of Representatives, the House of Delegates, Assembly or something similar.

Except for Doby, their play in the Negro leagues was a minor factor in their selection: Aaron, Banks, and Mays played in Negro leagues only briefly and after the leagues had declined with the migration of many black players to the integrated minor leagues ; Campanella ( 1969 ) and Robinson ( 1962 ) were selected before the Hall began considering performance in the Negro leagues.

Except for Viadana's collection, which contained purely instrumental and secular music, these were all collections of sacred vocal works, some with instrumental accompaniment.

Except for the Saar this area more or less corresponds with the modern use of the term.

Except where secondarily lost, shrimp have one pair of stalked eyes, although they are sometimes covered by the carapace, which protects the cephalothorax.

Except for the central pair, the tail feathers are much whiter than in the Northern Wheatear, the white on the inner web often extending to the tip.

Except during mating, when a pair stay together until the eggs are laid, Great Tinamous are solitary and roam the dark understory alone, seeking seeds, fruit, and small animals such as insects, spiders, frogs and small lizards in the leaf litter.

Except for AcPO < sub > 4 </ sub >, they are all similar to the corresponding lanthanum compounds and contain actinium in the oxidation state + 3.

Except for Explorer 1 and Explorer 3 and the earlier satellites in the series, usually if a probe is going to be a deep space explorer it leaves the Earth or an orbit around the Earth.

Except for the three fen denominations and the 3 yuan, notes in these denominations continue to circulate, with 50 and 100 yuan notes added in 1980 and 20 yuan notes added in or after 1999.

Except for the finale of season 5, " My Transition ", which was broadcast in high-definition, the first seven seasons of the show have been broadcast in standard-definition with 4: 3 frame aspect ratio.

Except for non-standard classes, the academic day runs from 10 am to 3: 15 pm, with an hour break for lunch, Monday through Friday, and 10 am to noon on Saturday.

Except for a short period between 1849 and 1855, during which the prison was closed, some 3, 700 Aboriginal men and boys, many of them Noongars, but also many others from all parts of the state, were imprisoned.

" Except for its educational division, which still publishes a substantial number of conventional textbooks, Thomson had the good fortune to move into these businesses as customers were demanding electronic delivery of their information ," according to a July 3, 2006 article in The New York Times.

* Smallville – The sequences are different every season ( Except Season 2 and 3 that use the same sequence ) In Season 10, the last season, the title sequences usually have four regular cast members, except the episodes that Allison Mack appears, her name is added in the sequences of those episodes for honouring her regular starring since 2001.

Except for the western two miles ( 3 km ) of the route between Interstate 5 and just east of Gorman Post Road and a segment shared with State Route 14 between Avenue D in Lancaster and Palmdale Boulevard in Palmdale, it is all surface road, mostly undivided two-lane road.

Except for some initialization dialogue that requires stronger synchronization, FICON uses Fibre Channel class of service 3 ( Datagram ).

Except for the connection to the striatum ( 17. 3 % in macaques ), most of the subthalamic principal neurons are multitargets and directed to the other elements of the core of the basal ganglia.

*< sup > 3 </ sup > Except for taxable profits arising in a ring-fenced oil or gas extraction trade, or against taxable profits of a life assurance business that are not taxed at shareholder rates.

Except for the bonds in O < sub > 3 </ sub >, no bonds between carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen atoms absorb in the interval between about 8 and 14 µm, though there is weaker continuum absorption in that interval.

Except in Wisdom 2: 24 ( where the serpent of Genesis 3 is called " Diabolos "), there is mention of one demon only ( Asmodeus, in Tobit 3: 8, 17 ), and that a Persian figure.

Except to the south, the refuge surrounds the former farm of Charles Albert Creamer ( 1889-1974 ), a former chicken rancher from Washington state who moved to Fairbanks in 1927 and established Creamer's Dairy at mile 2 ( km 3 ) of the Ester Road ( today's College Road ), which operated until shortly after the 1967 flood.

Except diamond, all jewel types come in 3 intermediate classes, in the following fashion:

Except for occasional attacks upon non-union workmen, or upon persons supposed not to be in sympathy with the miners ’ union, there had been no serious disturbance in Goldfield ; but in December 1907, Governor Sparks, at the insistence of the mine owners, appealed to President Theodore Roosevelt to send Federal troops to Goldfield, on the ground that the situation there was ominous, that destruction of life and property seemed probable, and that the state had no militia and would be powerless to maintain order.

::( 2 ) ( A ) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the punishment for that separate offense is the same as the punishment provided under Federal law for that conduct had that injury or death occurred to the unborn child ’ s mother.

In 2003, an off-Broadway musical production of Road House was staged as a campy comedy by Timothy Haskell, as seen by its full title of Road House: The Stage Version Of The Cinema Classic That Starred Patrick Swayze, Except This One Stars Taimak From The 80 ’ s Cult Classic “ The Last Dragon ” Wearing A Blonde Mullet Wig.

Except for appropriated foreign words, the consonants c, f, j, q, x, and z don ’ t appear in Kinaray-a words.

" Except where the nature of the case precludes, a prospective defendant or respondent should be notified of the substance of the staff ’ s charges and probable recommendations in advance of the submission of the staff memorandum to the Commission recommending the commencement of an enforcement action and be accorded an opportunity to submit a written statement to the staff to be forwarded to the Commission together with the staff memorandum.

Except during a 1990s collector ’ s bubble, the first appearances of several Image Comics characters and newer X-Men have not been as valuable as one may expect for such popular characters because those comics were widely produced.

Except for section II, the Apology reads like Luther ’ s Babylonian Captivity.

These two belonged to the seventy disciples who were scattered by the offence of the word which Christ spoke, “ Except a man eat my flesh, and drink my blood, he is not worthy of me .” But the one being induced to return to the Lord by Peter ’ s instrumentality, and the other by Paul ’ s, they were honored to preach that Gospel on account of which they also suffered martyrdom, the one being burned, and the other being crucified on an olive tree.

Except for the few surviving foundation students, there was hardly any Old Boy who had ever heard of Mr. Lomax ; this pioneer ’ s name was curiously sunk in obscurity.

Except for Doy Laurel I don ’ t recall having any friends then .”

nn: Everybody ’ s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

ru: Everybody ’ s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey