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 skill-based Jackpot Bowling ( 1959 – 1961 ), a period on Beat the Clock ( 1960 ) when its Bonus Stunt grew in $ 100 increments past the $ 10, 000 mark until finally being won for $ 20, 100 on September 23, and the short-lived ABC quiz 100 Grand ( 1963 ), the networks stayed away from awarding five-figure cash jackpots until the premiere of The $ 10, 000 Pyramid in 1973.

Except in the 2012 revival, a number of bonus cards were used during the front games, offering cash or a prize if the team correctly guessed all of the answers in a particular category.

Except that Kitti wasn't there.

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 the president's desire to perpetuate himself in office, there seemed little reason to alter the nation's basic charter.

Except for the Black Sea shore in the south, Bessarabia remained outside direct Roman control ; the myriad of tribes there are called by modern historians Free Dacians.

Except for during clinical trials, there is no Federal requirement in the United States for providing informed consent regarding the administration of vaccines.

Except where exchange involves the Authority, there is a generally-unregulated free market.

Except in areas of storminess, the most common areas of breaking waves are located near coastlines, hence the greatest densities of airborne salt particles are there.

Except for a few surviving tanks and a heavy weapons squad here or there, the assault troops had only their personal weapons, which, having been dragged through surf and sand, invariably needed cleaning before they could be used.

Except in the Northeast there are few large rivers, and many have only seasonal flows.

Except for periods of travel, Leopold spent the rest of his life there.

Except for the all hydraulic brakes, there were no hydraulic parts on original models as damping was by tuned mass dampers and friction dampers.

Article 8 of the Constitution, states that all Malaysian citizens shall be equal under the law, and " Except as expressly authorised by this Constitution, there shall be no discrimination against citizens on the ground only of religion, race, descent or place of birth in any law or in the appointment to any office or employment under a public authority or in the administration of any law relating to the acquisition, holding or disposition of property or the establishing or carrying on of any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment.

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 the occasional sporadic thunderstorm, there is almost no summer rainfall.

Except for the Petén region and the Guatemalan highlands, Spanish control over Yucatán itself was effectively in place by 1547 even though as late as 1550, there were only some 1, 550 Spanish in all of the colonial provinces.

Gunnison described the area as follows: Except three or four small cottonwood trees, there is not a tree to be seen by the unassisted eye on any part of the horizon.

Except for an interval of work in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1857 – 1865, he remained there until 1897 as a member of an artistic colony that included Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Hiram Powers.

Except for some brief instances in the first season, there was no background or transitional music.

Except for a rainy and dry season ( summer-fall and winter-spring respectively ) there is little variation in the climate during the year.

Except in some special-purpose differentials, there are no other limitations on the rotational speeds of the shafts.

Except for chemicals, all of the old industries have disappeared and there has been diversification, in particular because of the close links to the motorway system and the development of warehousing and distribution centres.

Except for a few statutory exemptions and in some medical cases there is no corresponding defense in English law.

Except for some limestone at the Cerro de Galindo, there are no exploitable minerals in the municipality.

Except where the wild yak is considered as a subspecies of Bos grunniens, there are no recognised subspecies of yak.