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 Hamburg, all large and most medium-sized German cities maintain light rail networks.

Except for the largest markets, most cities had only one or two stations.

Except for cities such as Birmingham that have established their own local school districts, all parts of Jefferson County are served by Jefferson County Board of Education.

Except for periods of abandonment, other cities were founded in the immediate vicinity, such as the Roman colony, and a Hellenistic Greek precedent.

Except where indicated, the statistics below do not include Virginia's 39 independent cities.

Except Kolkata and Howrah it has number of small cities which forms the Greater Kolkata Agglomeration, the second biggest Indian city and former capital.

Except in bigger cities like Stockholm and Gothenburg, and in the far south of Sweden, wood was the dominating building material.

Except the industries, malls and the carnival related workers, the country stops completely for almost a week and festivities are intense, day and night, mainly in coastal cities.

Except in major towns and cities, where their numbers are usually not marked on signs, they are usually single-track and may be in a state of poor repair due to the large number of roads covered by populations as small as 10.

Except in cities, Illinois 38 has two lanes west of Geneva.

Except in large cities, most movie theaters did not have facilities for playing back magnetic soundtracks, and a majority of films continued to be produced with mono optical soundtracks.

Except within some incorporated cities, all government services in the Unorganized Borough, including law enforcement, are provided by the state or by the Tribal government.

Except in times of danger, the lights were to be placed outside one's door, on the opposite side of the Mezuza, or in the window closest to the street.

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 the hyperlink tag, these were strongly influenced by SGMLguid, an in-house SGML based documentation format at CERN.

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 APOP, the optional commands were included in the initial set of capabilities.

Except for Legio I to IV, which were the consular armies ( two per consul ), other units were levied by campaign.

Except for mining, most industries were located in the urban areas of the northwest and southeast.

* Except for the Nuorese dialects, Latin single voiceless plosives in intervocalic position became voiced approximants, and single voiced plosives were lost: > ( or rather its soft counterpart ): locum > ( It.

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

Except where specifically documented, the models were architecturally compatible.

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 Forster, who published three novels before the highly successful Howards End in 1910, the group were late developers.

Except for the king's properties, land in Macedon was free: Macedonians were free men and did not pay land taxes on private grounds.

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 Holland, the old provinces were reconstituted.

Except for pre-emption for news coverage, notably the three-day continuous coverage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, and a few shows that were 45 minutes, the show aired a full 60 minutes on weekday mornings until 1981.

Except in cases of bias or negligence, these petitions were barred by an act that passed Congress in 1894 and was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court in U. S. vs Lem Moon Sing ( 1895 ).

Except for " King of Pain ", the singles were accompanied by music videos directed by Godley & Creme.

Except for certain fertile areas in Hedemarken and Østfold, crops were limited to hardy grains, such as oats, rye, and barley ; and livestock to sheep, goats, cattle, pigs, and some poultry ; in places this was complemented with hunting.

Except for Blake, whose death was contractual, the characters were shown being attacked in such a way that their survival would have been possible had a fifth series been commissioned.