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 hot streaks in April and August, Castillo did not hit for average or power and was not very selective at the plate, striking out with regularity ( if not quite as often as some of his teammates ) and walking very little despite hitting in front of the pitcher for most of the season.

Except, for one thing, I had this ugly parting from Marvel and that damaged my reputation and we needed a hit.

While the single in English made little impact ( Except in Australia, where it was released on the RCA label and made the lower reaches of the Top Forty ), the song was sometimes supposed to form the basis for Plastic Bertrand's internationally successful hit " Ça plane pour moi ", with new lyrics over the backing track.

* 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 very small trials limited to a single location, the clinical trial design and objectives are written into a document called a clinical trial protocol.

Except for the Airport Express, MTR fares are slightly lower when using an Octopus card compared to using single journey tickets.

Except for the Monument single, only the album versions were used on these singles.

Except for generalist journals such as Science or Nature, the topics covered in any single journal have tended to be narrow, and readership and citation have declined.

** 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 by air, there was no other access and a single bomb, rightly placed, could entirely isolate the airdrome.

Except for a life or death self-defense situation, the spirit and power of the single lethal strike can only be achieved when a karateka does not have to avoid injuring their training partner.

Except for a new single by Cher, " A Woman's Story ", and a Dion album, Born to Be with You, which was released only in the United Kingdom, all the releases on Warner-Spector were reissues of product from Philles Records, the label Phil Spector had co-founded in 1962.

Except for a single at-grade intersection, it is built to freeway standards.

Except for the Osgood Viaduct, this cut-off was double-tracked for many years but, since the arrival of CTC signaling in the Fifties, is now entirely single track.

Except for her brief marriage to George Parks, she remained a fiercely independent single woman.

" Except their late 1960s duets with Diana Ross & the Supremes, the Temptations had not released a single that was not based in psychedelia since " Please Return Your Love to Me " from The Temptations Wish It Would Rain in 1968.

Except for the now single track goods avoiding line, which still exists to serve the steelworks at Stocksbridge, all the track through the station was lifted in the mid-1980s and the station buildings were demolished in 1989 to make way for an extension to the adjacent Victoria Hotel complex.

The remaining single carriageway lengths are currently going under a dual carriageway construction facelift, and were duplicated in December 2009 ( Except for 20 km bypassing Tarcutta, Holbrook, Woomargama which will be bypassed and duplicated by 2012 ).

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 a single event, held in 1953, there was a 25-year hiatus until the Irish Open returned in 1975.

Except for the recent small addition, a single major vendor in a retail building is the only tenant in the total square foot ( TFA ) store.