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 the removal of homosexuality from the DSM-III onwards, this definition provided a general standard that has guided specific definitions of paraphilias in subsequent DSM editions, up to DSM-IV-TR.

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 the Back Bay and part of South Boston, Boston has no street grid, which is confusing for nonresident drivers.

Except for brief occupations by the English and Dutch in the 17th century, and by the Portuguese in the 19th century, Guiana has remained under French rule ever since.

Except for the random one-time pad, the security of these systems has not () been proven mathematically, so a theoretical breakthrough could make everything one has encrypted an open book.

Except for a brief period in the 1990s, High Life bottles have always been quite distinctive, as they have a bright gold label and are made of a clear glass that has a tapered neck like a champagne bottle.

Except for its coal, which is no longer economical to exploit, Belgium has few natural resources other than fertile soils.

Plutarch has recorded the following: " When someone said to him: ' Except for being king you are not at all superior to us ,' Leonidas son of Anaxandridas and brother of Cleomenes replied: ' But were I not better than you, I should not be king.

Except for four months in 2006, the series has been in print ever since, and it now appears bi-monthly.

Except for the trolley, the store fronts, and the pavement, the street has not changed.

Except that the name has too many ' l's ' the form was proper, according to what was originally intended.

A senior BBC manager wrote, " Except when a Barbirolli or a Kletzki has been in charge for a few days, the Orchestra is inferior, as an artistic instrument, to the Hallé or Philharmonia.

Except in flood-time, when the exit has to be used, the entrance is near the point where the river disappears at what is called the gap or hole of Belvaux, and the exit is made by boat from the cavern last described, which leads out to the open river.

Except on a handful of occasions where the city government has been suspended for not striking a rate ( a level of local tax ), Dublin has had a mayor for nearly eight hundred years.

Except for the presence of cauliflower ears, a prominent heart tattoo, hairy shoulders and perpetual beard stubble, bears a striking resemblance to SFC Snorkel — and has also been known to occasionally beat up on Beetle.

Except for six seasons — 1971 – 76 — Columbus has been represented in the highest levels of minor league baseball since 1902, at first in the American Association ( 1902 – 54 ) by the Columbus Senators and Columbus Red Birds, and since then in the International League.

Except for chemicals, all of the old industries have disappeared and there has been diversification, in particular because of the close links to the motorway system and the development of warehousing and distribution centres.

Except for the occupation by the Germans in World War II when the daily ceremony was conducted at Brookwood Military Cemetery, in Surrey, England, this ceremony has been carried on uninterrupted since 2 July 1928.

Except for a few special cases ( for example in Law ) this process has been completed and all degrees been converted.

Except for occasional incursions by corsairs and some severe earthquakes, the island has rarely had its peace disturbed.

Except for very few grandfathered customers, Bell has monthly data transfer limits for all of their tiered Internet services.

Except for some refinements, little has changed in the half-century since Jackson's assessment of the feasibility of muon-catalyzed fusion, other than Vesman's prediction of the hyperfine resonant formation of the muonic ( d-μ-t )< sup >+</ sup > molecular ion, which was subsequently experimentally observed.

Except for a man of religion ( wadaad ), and they were few in number, all Somali males were considered potential warriors.

Except as noted in the Laplace resonance figure ( below ), a resonance ratio in this article should be interpreted as the ratio of number of orbits completed in the same time interval, rather than as the ratio of orbital periods ( which would be the inverse ratio ).

Except for a man of religion ( wadaad ), and they were few in number, all Somali males were considered potential warriors.

Except for the above exceptions, the entire double-precision number is described by:

Except for the case of " pathological " game trees ( which seem to be quite rare in practice ), increasing the search depth ( i. e., the number of plies searched ) generally improves the chance of picking the best move.

Except for extremely small geographic areas, broadcast systems are only able to deliver large amounts of S / N at low frequencies where there is not sufficient spectrum to support the large information capacity needed by a large number of users.

Except for a small number of common areas, the landlords held large areas of lands and collected rental fees from the peasants.

Except carbon, it also contains a number of other minable resources ( methane, cadmium, lead, silver and zinc ).

Except in the 2012 revival, a number of bonus cards were used during the front games, offering cash or a prize if the team correctly guessed all of the answers in a particular category.

Except for the difference in the number of deputies, the provisions of the federal Constitution applied equally to the national councils of each republic: deputies were elected to five-year terms of office ; the national councils had to hold at least two sessions annually ; and each national council elected its own presidium ( fifteen to twenty-one members in the Slovak National Council and up to twenty-five members in the Czech National Council ), which was empowered to act when the full national council was not in session.

Except for 11, all palindromic primes have an odd number of digits, because the divisibility test for 11 tells us that every palindromic number with an even number of digits is a multiple of 11.

" 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.

Except on the railways CIÉ is not a complete monopoly, as a number of other operators exist, but under the Transport Act 1932 they cannot compete directly with CIÉ on routes for which it has a licence.

Except for a very limited number of co-ops that follow the strict Rochdale Principles of one vote, all Finnish co-ops are incorporated as ( non-profit ) limited-liability companies ( asunto-osakeyhtiö ).

At the end of each level, the number of the rows left on the stage is multiplied by 1, 000 and added to the score — this score typically has a maximum of 40, 000 ( Except for the 1st, 3rd and Final Stages, their maximum scores are 27000, 39000 and 29000 respectively ).

Except some stations in Paris, where the platform number exceeds 26, such as Saint Lazare with 27 numbered platforms, platforms are always given letters.

Except for her hours of meditation, most of her time was spent in cooking for Ramakrishna and the growing number of his devotees.

Except for some special cases ( see below ), every vehicle license plate in Indonesia follows the following format: LL NNNN LL where " L " are letters of the Latin alphabet, and " N " and numbers from " 0 " to " 9 " ( note that the first number is never a " 0 ").

Except for a small number of private railways, most of the Australian railway network infrastructure is government-owned, either at the federal or state level.

Except for one day in March 1998, Niemann-Stirnemann was number one in the Adelskalender, the all-time allround speed skating ranking, from 24 January 1993, until 2 March 2001 – a total of 2, 958 days.

Except for isolated patches, the land surface is covered by an ice cap, highly crevassed in certain segments, with ice domes and plateaus in the central and western areas, and a number of valley glaciers formed by the more mountainous relief of eastern Livingston.

Except for a small number of descendants there are no members of the Dharug tribe now living in the area.