Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption.

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 that one morning.

Except for sophomore center Mike Kelsey and fullback Mike Rice, Meek expects the squad to be physically sound for Rice.

Except for a few months in late 1960 and early 1961, retail farm equipment sales have trailed year-earlier levels since the latter part of 1959.

`` Except for Shabbat, when they are praying all day ''.

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 one occasion, the Project never played live during its original incarnation.

Except for the flow direction, the Amazon and the Hamza have very different characteristics.

Except for men's and women's meetings, most meetings targeting specific demographics ( including newcomers, gays, and young people ) do not exclude other alcoholics.

Except for the American designs, tank destroyers were all turretless and had fixed or casemate superstructures.

Except for the Chobe, Okavango, Boteti and Limpopo rivers, most of Botswana's rivers cease to flow during the dry and early rainy seasons.

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 this one difference, the first and second Bernoulli numbers agree.

Except for the smaller rivers in the southeast, most of the major rivers and river systems in Cambodia drain into the Tonle Sap or into the Mekong River.

Except for the several relatively good toll roads which connect major cities ( all of them one-lane ) roads are poorly maintained and subject to inclement weather, since only 10 % of the roadways are tarred.

Except for nautiloids ( represented by the modern order Nautilida ) and coleoids ( which had already diverged into modern octopodes, squids, and cuttlefish ) all other species of the molluscan class Cephalopoda became extinct at the K – T boundary.

Except for the House of Braganza ( founded by an illegitimate son of King John I of Portugal, who was himself illegitimate ), all current major Capetian branches are of the Bourbon cadet branch.

Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future.

Except for the partnership, all business forms are designed to provide limited liability to both members of the organization and external investors.

Except for the Antikythera mechanism, an " out of the time " astronomical device, development of computing tools arrived in the beginning of the 17th century: Geometric-military compass by Galileo, Logarithms and Napier Bones by Napier, slide rule by Edmund Gunter.

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

Except for a ship lift, the dam project was completed and fully functional as of July 4, 2012, when the last of the main turbines in the underground plant began production.

Except for three motorcycles sold with other memorabilia in 2006, most of McQueen's collection of 130 motorcycles was sold 4 years after his death.

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 about a year during 1835-1836, the United States has continuously held a public debt since the US Constitution legally went into effect on 4 March 1789.

Except for Sundays, it is open to the public from 9am to 4. 30pm.

Except for the steadily disappearing 880 kiB and 1. 4 MiB floppy disk formats, MFM encoding is obsolete.

Except for the initial 11 and last 4 sentences, all of the 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Ivo Andrić's novel Prokleta avlija ( translated into English as Accursed and / or Damned Yard ) happens in Yedikule Prison ( link on the Andrić Foundation site ).

Except on Sundays and public holidays, 1LIVE, WDR 2, and WDR 4 carry a limited amount of paid-for commercial advertising during the daytime.

Except Purohit, Keshaorao Shende stood as a VRP candidate in Ramtek, and got 9 046 votes ( 1, 4 %).

*< sup > 4 </ sup > Except that unutilised Case I losses arising in a life assurance business taxed on the I minus E basis before the accounting period that included 31 December 2002 could only be carried forward for limited purposes.

Except for propositional logic, all are complex and can only be understood by mathematicians, logicians or computer scientists.

Except for Irenaeus ' 2nd-century reference to many in the church speaking all kinds of languages ' through the Spirit ', and Tertullian's reference in 207 AD to the spiritual gift of interpretation of tongues being encountered in his day, there are no other known first-hand accounts of glossolalia, and very few second-hand accounts among their writings.

Except for Pakistan, which received heavy inputs of aid from the United States, all other South Asian countries receive most of their aid from Japan.

Except for the Tobol, Ishim, and Irtysh rivers ( the Kazak names for which are, respectively, Tobyl, Esil, and Ertis ), portions of which flow through Kazakhstan, all of Kazakhstan's rivers and streams are part of landlocked systems.

Except for the group label, in all three conditions the description of the indoctrination process was identical.

Except for two scenes in all the novels, all Nexus inhabitants speak English, though they may know other languages or have a planetary accent.

Except for the foggy and fertile Dhofar all of the coast and the lowlands around the Al Hajar mountains are part of the Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert ecoregion, while the mountains themselves are a distinct habitat.

Except for the Al – Li – Cu system, all the stable quasicrystals are almost free of defects and disorder, as evidenced by x-ray and electron diffraction revealing peak widths as sharp as those of perfect crystals such as Si.

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

Except for Russia and Finland, all high-speed lines have been built to this gauge.

Except in The Horse and His Boy, the protagonists are all children from the real world magically transported to Narnia, where they are called upon by the lion Aslan to protect Narnia from evil and restore the throne to its rightful line.

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 Dubhe and Alkaid ( Eta Ursae Majoris ), the stars of the Big Dipper all have proper motions heading toward a common point in Sagittarius.

Except in the free trade zone, the UAE requires at least 51 % local citizen ownership in all businesses operating in the country as part of its attempt to place Emiratis into leadership positions.

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.