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 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 very small markets with few stations, affiliation agreements are usually exclusive: If a station is an NBC affiliate, the station would not air programs from ABC, CBS or other networks.

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.

Except " Cut the kids in half ", which is dramatic no matter which way you read it.

Except in the most literal of cases ( where the opposite of using a golden hammer would presumably be using the " right tool for the job ") the antonym for this mindset would be there's more than one way to skin a cat.

Except for his prompt pursuit, so much in this way would not have been accomplished.

" Except for a few scholars, such as Ludwig Tieck and August Wilhelm Schlegel, " hardly anyone has thought that Shakespeare was even in the slightest way involved in the production of these plays.

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.

In Going Postal, Mister Pump ( AKA Pump Nineteen ) has had the rule " A Golem May Not Harm A Human Being Or Allow A Human Being To Come To Harm " amended to add " Except When Ordered To By Duly Constituted Authority.

Except these tress have been planted around the house which add to its beauty.

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

Except for some TV work in the late seventies, Caprino made no more puppet films, focusing instead on creating attractions for the Hunderfossen theme park outside Lillehammer based on his folk tale movies, and making tourist films using a custom built multi camera setup of his own design that shoots 280 degrees panorama movies.

Except on the west coast, where the white sandy beach is more extensive than elsewhere, a strip of dark gray coral rubble, forming a series of low ridges parallel to the coast, lies within the narrow beach, extending inward to the island rim.

Except for special cases like the Lagrangian points, no method is known to solve the equations of motion for a system with four or more bodies.

Except for the Saar this area more or less corresponds with the modern use of the term.

Except in New Zealand, men always reported more sexual partners than women.

Except of the much higher magnification and good versatility, an electron microscope with a cathodoluminescence detector will be more complicated and more expensive compared to an easy to use optical cathodoluminescence microscope which benefits from its ability to show actual visible color features immediately through the eyepiece.

Except for C74 and C100, such non-standard lengths always have been hard to find, and tend to be more expensive than the more popular lengths.

Except for Reverse proxy, the types of proxies described in this article are more specialized sub-types of the general forward proxy concept.

Except in the Dialogue Mass form, which arose about 1910 and led to a more active exterior participation of the congregation, the people present at the Tridentine Mass do not recite out loud the prayers of the Mass.

Except for the fact they have 1 MB L2 Cache ( versus 512 KB for the Athlon64 ) the Socket 939 Opterons are identical to the San Diego and Toledo core Athlon 64s, but are run at lower clockspeeds than the cores are capable of, making them more stable.

Except for the 15c value which was in use as late as 1897, the Large Queens had a relatively short life, being replaced in 1870 by the " Small Queens ", smaller stamps of the same basic design, adopted to be able to produce more stamps more quickly.

Except for the unusually warm winter of 2004-2005, there is usually a snow depth of or more at the Brockton weather station.

Except for the occasional civilian flights aviation lessened, even more so when the station closed in 1920 and the site returned to farmland.

Except for Britain, Honda did not offer the more powerful 1. 6 DOHC fuel injection engine ( in the UK known as the Integra EX16 ) in Europe.

Except for dead center — versus Tiger Stadium's — the outfield dimensions were more expansive than those at Tiger Stadium.

" Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the Commission from time to time, as public convenience, interest, or necessity requires, shall -...( g ) Study new uses for radio, provide for experimental uses of frequencies, and generally encourage the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest.

Except for a few outposts of rock, like Little Shop of Horrors ( 1982 ) and Chess ( 1986 ), audience tastes turned to shows with European pop scores, like Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera, as well as to more nostalgic fare.

Except for the Prime Minister's party, the nominees of the Leader of the Opposition must represent every political party with more than 8 seats in the House of Representatives, in proportion to its total membership.

Except for the service academies, the Corps, in conjunction with its ROTC affiliates and the Department of Military Science at Texas A & M University, produces more military officers than any other school in the United States.