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Except for the 2008 presidential election where Obama won by 50-60 percent, an estimated 65 to 80 % voted for Republican candidates in most congressional, U. S. or state senatorial and presidential candidates.
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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 and 2008
Except for the 2002 Trilogy shows in Berlin, the other songs have not been played since the 2000 Dream Tour, although " Last Day of Summer " was soundchecked for 2008, but never played.
Except for the years 2006 to 2008, when it was held by the Bloc Québécois, the seat has been in Liberal hands since 1953.
Except for a brief retirement for the 1994 – 95 season, Kilrea coached the 67's until the end of the 2008 – 09 season, and is also the General Manager of the club.
Except for the 1988 Cotton Bowl Classic against Texas A & M, the 2008 Hawaii Bowl, and the 2010 Sun Bowl against Miami, names have not been included on Notre Dame's team jerseys since.
When issued on compact disc in 1986, " I Before E Except After C ", which is composed mostly of cut-up speech, was dropped from the tracklisting ( reinstated on the 2008 remaster ).
Except and presidential
Except for 1928, when candidate Al Smith, a Catholic, ran on the Democratic ticket, Democratic candidates won by large margins in the South in every presidential election from 1876 until 1948 ( even in 1928, the divided South provided Smith with nearly three-fourths of his electoral votes ).
Except and election
Except for James Whitcomb, all of Indiana's governors have been married at the time of their election.
Except for a brief interruption in 2000, it held the parliamentary majority between 1994 and 2004, when it lost the election to the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party.
Except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election ( even while the governor's office has gone back and forth between Republicans and Democrats ).
Except for a few excursions into politics — he was a member of Philadelphia's Common Council ( 1789 ) and, as a stalwart Federalist who considered the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800 a " great subversion ;' he ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on the Federalist ticket in 1812 — his public career centered on legal affairs.
Except for 1928, when Catholic candidate Al Smith ran on the Democratic ticket, Democrats won heavily in the South in every Presidential election from 1876 until 1964 ( and even in 1928, the divided South provided most of Smith's electoral votes ).
Except for a few years during the 1890s Grand Marshals were elected each year, usually in the spring, and this provided, as it were, the culminating event of the student calendar with celebrations of the Grand Marshal's election and installation.
Except for the first election, won by Democrat Tom Vandergriff in 1982, the seat has been held by Republicans.
Except as noted below, all amendments proposed, regardless of the method of amendment, must be approved by 60 percent of the voters in a referendum held simultaneously with the next general election ( that is, the next one at least 90 days after the amendment is filed with the custodian of state records ) before they become a part of the Constitution.
Except and where
Except in the far northwest and south, where its borders converge, Chad's average width is about 800 kilometers.
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 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.
Except where specifically documented, the models were architecturally compatible.
Except in countries where only primary or basic education is compulsory, secondary education includes the final stage of compulsory education and in many countries it is entirely compulsory.
Except in a few countries where only primary or basic education is compulsory, secondary education includes the final stage of compulsory education.
Except in The Horse and His Boy, the protagonists are all children from the real world magically transported to Narnia, where they are called upon by the lion Aslan to protect Narnia from evil and restore the throne to its rightful line.
Except for the upper levels, where a double bridle is permitted, horses may only be ridden in snaffle bits.
Except where secondarily lost, shrimp have one pair of stalked eyes, although they are sometimes covered by the carapace, which protects the cephalothorax.
Except where exchange involves the Authority, there is a generally-unregulated free market.
Except where stated otherwise ( mostly in items 5 and 6 of the table of contents ), this common usage is employed in this article.
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.
Except for where the valleys empty into the small bays, the islands are remarkable for their mountain ridges, which end abruptly as cliffs where they meet the sea.
Except in flood-time, when the exit has to be used, the entrance is near the point where the river disappears at what is called the gap or hole of Belvaux, and the exit is made by boat from the cavern last described, which leads out to the open river.
Except for a few sequences where the tension is convincing as well as deadly she fails.
Except on a handful of occasions where the city government has been suspended for not striking a rate ( a level of local tax ), Dublin has had a mayor for nearly eight hundred years.
Except for the elevated area of Erigavo district where rainfall records indicate an annual average of up to 800 mm ( see " Cal Madow " topic ), rainfall generally does not exceed 150 mm in most of the region.
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 same-sex marriages contracted by habit and repute, all jurisdictions recognize common law marriages that were validly contracted in the originating jurisdiction, because they are valid marriages in the jurisdiction where they were contracted.
Except for the central and southeast areas, where most of the population is concentrated, it is mostly mountainous.
Except where the wild yak is considered as a subspecies of Bos grunniens, there are no recognised subspecies of yak.
Except for the geographical parts of Pliny's Historia naturalis ( where Mela is cited as an important authority ) the De situ orbis is the only formal treatise on the subject in Classical Latin.
Except at quieter airports, Air Traffic Control is a 24-hour, 365-day-a-year job where controllers usually work rotating shifts, including nights, weekends and public holidays.
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