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 in the north and northeast, mean annual rainfall ranges between.

Except during Santa Ana ( northeast ) wind events ( usually fall and winter ), gusty southwest winds blow over Palmdale almost every afternoon and evening all year round.

Except for a small section in the village's northeast corner, Quincy's boundaries form a square.

Except for the northeast corner, the entire township is in the Lakota Local School District.

Except the 40 Frenchmen and the guns which they worked, the Indian side could do little to reply to the British cannonade ( after a spell of rain ) which, with the 39th Regiment, scattered the host, inflicting on it a loss of 500 men.

Except for the United Kingdom itself and Papua New Guinea ( which, before independence, had been administered as two separate territories by Australia ), the Commonwealth realms are former British colonies.

Except for brief periods of British rule, the island remained under Dutch control until Indonesia's independence in 1945.

In Canada production designers are represented by The Director's Guild of Canada, Except in British Columbia where they are represented by IATSE.

Except for one British private, Dennis Sullivan, at Fort Erie, captured and paroled by the Fenians the day before, no British military personnel were present at the battles at Limestone Ridge or at Fort Erie.

Except for a few trial vehicles, Covenanters were never deployed outside of the British Isles.

No-Man are a British art-pop duo formed in 1987 as No Man Is An Island ( Except The Isle Of Man ) by singer Tim Bowness and multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson ( the latter also of Porcupine Tree ).

I Didn't Know You Cared is a British television comedy set in a working class household in South Yorkshire in the 1970s, written by Peter Tinniswood and loosely based upon his books A Touch Of Daniel, I Didn't Know You Cared and Except You're A Bird.

Except for one year ( 1966-1967 ) at Rockefeller University, he spent his entire academic career at Columbia, becoming a University Professor in 1967 until his retirement in 1970, after which he continued to teach.

Except for the fortress and its immediate vicinity Luxembourg was considered a province of the new Belgian state from 1830 to 1839.

Except for the province of Nuevo León, initiation of the Blood Purity Laws reduced the migration of conversos.

Except for its overland link with the province of Albay to the north, it is completely surrounded by water.

Except being the administrative center of the province, agriculture, industry of liqueurs and trade were developed, many brotherhoods were established, similar to the Central European trade guilds.

Except these border mountains most of the province is a flat plain area.

Except for Quebec, the information below concerns altering the sex recorded on one's birth certificate, and therefore must be done with regard to the province or territory where one was born.

Except for participating in the urgent and temporary link-up with the now-isolated Army Group North in Lithuania ( Operation Doppelkopf ), the unit remained to defend the easternmost German province from the advancing Red Army.

Except for the 38th Division's brutal struggle at ZigZag Pass, the swift and easy recapture of the province of Zambales and the Bataan peninsula, enabled the Americans full use of Manila Bay and its world-class deepwater port.