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 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.

Except for sabbaticals at the University of California, Davis, 1982 / 83, and at Rockefeller University, 1980 / 84, this pattern of spending summers in Colorado and Los Alamos and winters in Florida continued until Ulam died on May 13, 1984, in Santa Fe.

Except in obvious pyogenic or toxic / chemical conjunctivitis, a slit lamp ( biomicroscope ) is needed to have any confidence in the diagnosis.

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.

Valentine has just given a lengthy speech lamenting his banishment and musing on how he cannot possibly survive without Silvia ; " Except I be by Silvia in the night / There is no music in the nightingale ./ Unless I look on Silvia in the day / There is no day for me to look upon " ( ll. 178 – 181 ).

** Except for the western part linking downtown Hull to Buckingham, and some short segments near Lachute and Mirabel Airport to A-15, the expressway is actually a high speed ( 100 km / h ) 2-way road.

** Except for a single northbound morning and southbound evening train, all trains are operated in 15-car sets south of Kagohara, where they are joined / separated ; a 10-car train is operated north of Kagohara.

** Except for two round trips on weekdays, all trains are operated in 15-car sets south of Kagohara, where they are joined / separated ; a 10-car train is operated north of Kagohara.

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 in the smallest organizations, the art director / copywriter team is overseen by a creative director, senior media creative, chief creative director.

Except BSNL most of the operators are having Limited Coverage in Interior Rural areas / Forest Areas

Except for Mobile, Tuscaloosa, and Muscle Shoals / Florence, U. S. 43 passes through rural areas and small towns.

Except for the National Park, the conservation areas were managed by the actual municipality / municipalities ( some PAs comprises more than one municipality ).

Except for a gap caused by the construction of the Vine Street Expressway ( I-676 / US 30 ), and a few blocks at the north end, the viaduct still exists.

Except for a couple of fourth place finishes, leading 15 laps at Cleveland, and podium at Surfer's Paradise in a wet / dry race the season was not very successful as rookie teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay was outpacing Vasser.

* The GNU Project's General Public License, a prominent free software license, includes the disclaimer: " Except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and / or other parties provide the program ' as is ' without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Except for the program counter, the processor special-purpose registers are also mapped to RAM, in the I / O space.

Except for a brief period during the Cultural Revolution ( 1966 – 1976 ) when the government encouraged people to drive on the left ( for symbolic / ideological reasons ), the convention has been to drive on the right.

Except in its former name, the Social Democratic Party / Union is not related to the Latvian Social Democratic Union of 1892 – 1913 ( from 1913 onwards known as the Latvian Revolutionary Socialist Party ).

Except for countering intercontinental ballistic missiles, hardkill measures generally refer to measures taken in the so-called " end-game " shortly before a warhead / missile hits its target.