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 the Gigante cultivar, spring-grown kohlrabi much over 5 cm in size tend to be woody, as do full-grown kohlrabi much over perhaps 10 cm in size ; the Gigante cultivar can achieve great size while remaining of good eating quality.

Except where a Drill Manual ( or parade ) protocol dictates otherwise, the duration of the salute is timed at three beats of the quick-time march ( approximately 1. 5 seconds ), timed from the moment the senior member first returns it.

Except for CP / M and versions of MS-DOS / PC DOS prior to version 5. 0, each of these operating systems assigns drive letters according to the following algorithm:

Code of Civil Procedure § 1279. 5 ( a ) reads, " Except as provided in subdivision ( b ), ( c ), ( d ), or ( e ), nothing in this title shall be construed to abrogate the common law right of any person to change his or her name.

Except where stated otherwise ( mostly in items 5 and 6 of the table of contents ), this common usage is employed in this article.

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 the dwarf form, length ranges from 7 to 9. 8 meters and weight ranges from 5 to 10 tons.

Except for the 1 lilangeni, the coins were not round, with the 1 and 50 cents dodecagonal, the 2 cents square with rounded corners and the 5, 10 and 20 cents scalloped.

Except for silver 50 centavos ( also denominated 5 decimos ) issued between 1887 and 1889, no other denominations were issued until 1897, when silver 10 and 20 centavos were introduced.

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.

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( a ) ' They point out that the sentence of Christ in Luke 13: 5, is final: " Except you repent ", etc., and from the Fathers they cite passages such as the following from Cyprian, " De Lapsis ", no.

Except for a break during the Second World War, events continued to be held until 1981, watched by up to 5, 000 spectators.

Except for Italy's single — and for many, unexpected — victory in 2002, the only winners so far have been the Russia ( 5 times as Soviet Union ), Japan, China and Cuba.

Except for repeater stations and stations using the data-only channel, the maximum legal output power is 5 Watts.

Except for " educational purposes, highway purposes, to pay Confederate pensions and the just debts of the State ", no appropriations exceeding $ 2. 5 million can be passed without a three-fourths majority.

Except for that slight revision, the basic Darwinian theory hasn't changed in the last 50 years.

Except for minor color changes throughout the years, this logo remained the same until the team was renamed the Titans in 1999.

Except for the years 1887 to 1890, there was at least one member of the Sevier family in public office for the 122 years preceding 2005.

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.

( a ) Except as provided in subsection ( b ) of this section, whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure, or to continue to detain another person in order to compel a third person or a governmental organization to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the person detained, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life and, if the death of any person results, shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.

Except for her participation in 1998's successful Reencuentro Tour with Timbiriche, Rubio was absent from the music scene for nearly four long years.

This initiative faltered after a couple of years, and all the early albums up to and including London Stone were re-released ( Except Any Gas Faster ).

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 a few years spent learning bookbinding and a brief career as a sales representative for the family silicate business, through which she met her second husband, Beck's career was devoted to food.

Except for a handful of poems, most of the literature from Esperanto's first twenty years or so is now regarded as of historical interest only.

Except for typographical arrangement of published editions, the duration of copyright in other works is also 50 years from certain events specified in the Copyright Ordinance.

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Except in the cases of both Ottawa and McGill, they are three years in length.

Except during the early follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, its serum levels are somewhat higher than that of estrone during the reproductive years of the human female.

Except for Real Quiet in 1999, for many years no other horse who had won a three-year-old classic had gone on to take another Grade 1 race as an older horse — except Funny Cide.

Except for winters spent in Sri Lanka ( then known as Ceylon ) during the early 1950s, Tangier was his home for the next fifty-two years, the remainder of his life.

Except in the years when the Rose Bowl served as the BCS National Championship Game, the Rose Bowl game has continued to be played in the afternoon.

Except for a few years around the time that Ness had resigned, the college had been expanding as had the church.

Except for the period of 200 years beginning with his son and successor, King Jangsu, and the later kingdom of Balhae, Korea never before or since ruled such a vast territory.

* Except for Ashbery, who soon moved to Paris, all lived in New York during their formative years as poets.

Except for the years 2006 to 2008, when it was held by the Bloc Québécois, the seat has been in Liberal hands since 1953.

Except for the news and sports programs, for many years these channels transmitted programs produced in Mexico and Venezuela.

Except for Western Pomerania, the Funnelbeaker culture was replaced by the Globular Amphora culture a thousand years later.