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.

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 occasional attacks upon non-union workmen, or upon persons supposed not to be in sympathy with the miners ’ union, there had been no serious disturbance in Goldfield ; but in December 1907, Governor Sparks, at the insistence of the mine owners, appealed to President Theodore Roosevelt to send Federal troops to Goldfield, on the ground that the situation there was ominous, that destruction of life and property seemed probable, and that the state had no militia and would be powerless to maintain order.

Except in the trivial cases when p is 0 or 1, such a G almost surely has the following property:

Clause 2 states: “ Except as expressly authorised by this Constitution, there shall be no discrimination against citizens on the ground only of religion, race, descent, gender 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 resort area near the dam, most of the property around the lake is private.

Except for a brief period of " privatisation " by Oliver Cromwell in order to pay for the civil war, the area remained the personal property of the monarch until the reign of George III when control over all Crown lands was handed over to Parliament.

Except for the king's properties, land in Macedon was free: Macedonians were free men and did not pay land taxes on private grounds.

Except for volume ( V ), these extensive properties are dependent on the amount of material ( substance ) in the thermodynamic system in question.

Except for the first, mathematical sense, all these concepts of " perfection " show a kinship and oscillate between ideal and approximation.

Except for the castellated tower, perilously undercut by the adjacent river Caman, most of the original Norman structure of the present building has been rebuilt.

Except for the first season, a play-off structure leading to a championship final has always been used to determine the fate of the championship.

Except in the case of the isotopes of hydrogen ( which differ greatly from each other in relative mass — enough to cause chemical effects ), the isotopes of the various elements are typically chemically nearly indistinguishable from each other.

Except for propositional logic, all are complex and can only be understood by mathematicians, logicians or computer scientists.

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 limitations imposed by their finite memory stores, modern computers are said to be Turing-complete, which is to say, they have algorithm execution capability equivalent to a universal Turing machine.

Except for the fuel delivery components, most internal combustion engines that are designed for gasoline use can run on natural gas or liquefied petroleum gases without major modifications.

Except for the Tobol, Ishim, and Irtysh rivers ( the Kazak names for which are, respectively, Tobyl, Esil, and Ertis ), portions of which flow through Kazakhstan, all of Kazakhstan's rivers and streams are part of landlocked systems.

Except for the state-owned Télé-Liban, most broadcasters run commercials and are privately owned.

Except for the Yalu and Taedong rivers, most of the inland waterways, totaling 2, 250 kilometers, are navigable only by small boats.

Except for the foggy and fertile Dhofar all of the coast and the lowlands around the Al Hajar mountains are part of the Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert ecoregion, while the mountains themselves are a distinct habitat.

Except for the Cassidys, these are now owned by Castle Hill Productions, with video rights to some licensed to The Criterion Collection.

Except: if the tops are adjacent or essentially the same with both the straight and flush, ( e. g., A-9 vs. A-6, K-Q vs. K-J, or both tops are Q-x or lower ), then always play the stronger flush with essentially the same top.

Except for the Al – Li – Cu system, all the stable quasicrystals are almost free of defects and disorder, as evidenced by x-ray and electron diffraction revealing peak widths as sharp as those of perfect crystals such as Si.

Except for the Southeast Peninsula which is very dry, mean annual rainfall ranges from about in the coastal areas, to about in the central mountain ranges but, from May to October rainfall is heavier while temperatures are a little hotter.