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 citadel and churches, Elbing at the time was more of a small village by modern standards.

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

Except in the rift depression, frost is fairly common during the winter, it may take the form of snow at the higher elevations of the north western highlands.

Except where a Drill Manual ( or parade ) protocol dictates otherwise, the duration of the salute is timed at three beats of the quick-time march ( approximately 1. 5 seconds ), timed from the moment the senior member first returns it.

Reynolds states " Except for a brief flirtation with Ch ' an in the early days of Buddhism in Tibet in the eighth century, the Tibetans exhibited almost no interest at all in Chinese Buddhism, except for translating a few Sutras from Chinese for which they did not possess Indian originals.

Except in the free trade zone, the UAE requires at least 51 % local citizen ownership in all businesses operating in the country as part of its attempt to place Emiratis into leadership positions.

Except for his customary summer vacations in the Adirondacks ( at Keene Valley, New York ) and later at the White Mountains ( in Intervale, New Hampshire ), his sojourn in Europe in 1866-9 was almost the only time that Gibbs ever spent outside of New Haven.

Except for KDAF ( which was sold to Renaissance Broadcasting in 1995 and became a WB affiliate at the same time ), all the original stations are still part of the Fox network today.

Except in the far north near the Amur River, high humidity causes major discomfort at this time of year.

Except for high quality crystals at low temperatures, the phonon mean free path is not reduced significantly at higher temperatures.

Except for a brief appearance at Aegospotami, Alcibiades ' involvement in the Peloponnesian War is over.

Except at the start of her career, Garbo conducted few interviews ( she gave only fourteen in her life ), signed no autographs, attended few industry social functions, and turned down all but a few requests for public appearances.

Except for a loss in the 1996 quarterfinals to eventual winner Richard Krajicek, Sampras continued to win at Wimbledon for the rest of the decade, becoming the most successful male player in Wimbledon history.

Except for members of the genus Clematoclethra which have 10 stamens, the stamens are numerous and originally attached at the back.

Except for Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia at the river mouth, the only population centres of any note are Foz do Tua, Pinhão and Peso da Régua.

Except for cash there must be a credible possibility of losing at least five percent of the investment, otherwise the investment must be held in a cash ISA instead.

Except in the Ninth Circuit Courts, the en banc court consists of all of the circuit judges who are on active status, but it does not include the senior or assigned judges ( except that under some circumstances, a senior judge may participate in an en banc hearing when he or she participated at an earlier stage of the same case ).

Plutarch has recorded the following: " When someone said to him: ' Except for being king you are not at all superior to us ,' Leonidas son of Anaxandridas and brother of Cleomenes replied: ' But were I not better than you, I should not be king.

Except for the news, the elaboration of their programs utilized the technical formats used in movies at that time.

Except where the Satyricon imitates colloquial language ( e. g., in the speeches of the freedmen at Trimalchio's dinner ), its style is in line with the literary prose of the period.