Except for the city of Santo Domingo, which managed to maintain some legal exports, Dominican ports were forced to rely on contraband trade, which, along with livestock, became the sole source of livelihood for the island dwellers.

Except for bedroom communities near metropolitan centers, Marion's growth during the 1950s exceeded all but one Indiana city with populations of 10, 000-100, 000.

Except for a small portion which touches neighboring St. Bernard, Elmwood Place is nearly surrounded by the city of Cincinnati.

Except for Prescott, which is an incorporated city ( despite having neither a post office nor a separate telephone exchange ), little remains to identify these places today other than left-over identifying signs or historic landmarks, such as an abandoned or converted school buildings.

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 Danube in the south, the city is surrounded by forests and hills which rise to altitudes of over, some of them part of the Swabian Alb.

Except the Lord keep the city

Except for the Rüstem Paşa Camii, built by the Ottoman architect, Mimar Sinan, in the 16th century, and the narrow streets that help one imagine life in the Ottoman period, the city lacks antique charm.

Except for the faculties of Law, Humanities, and University College, which are located in the inner city of Utrecht, most of the buildings of the University are on De Uithof.

Except for New York City, the major urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest were organized into one family per city ; due to the sheer size of organized crime in New York, it was organized into five separate families.

* Except for China National Highway 112, which originates in Tianjin, all highways in the 100 series ( e. g. 102, 106 ) begin from Beijing, the capital city of the People's Republic of China, and spread out in all compass directions ;

Except Kolkata and Howrah it has number of small cities which forms the Greater Kolkata Agglomeration, the second biggest Indian city and former capital.

Except for the Pocheon basin, most regions of the city consist of high mountains.

Except for its western section, Bežanija, Novi Beograd is built on terrain that was essentially a swamp when construction of the new city began in 1948.

Except for the two railways ( the other is Shide Railway leading to Shijiazhuang ), National Highway 104, NH105 and a few provincial roads cross the city as well.

Except where the James River continues to define a boundary between the West End and Southside, drawing a theoretical line between quadrants of the metropolitan area is not well defined as one moves away from the city.

Except for the royal city of Amathus, the Kingdoms of Cyprus took part in the Ionian rising in 499 BC.

Except for the unplanned casualties, the battle had gone according to plan ; the Spanish had surrendered the city to the Americans, and it had not fallen to the Filipinos.

Except for the area near the river Drina, the city is surrounded by mountains with preserved forests, which creates a beautiful scenery with the town's location at the bottom of a valley.

Except for Mount Davidson, they are the highest points in the city.

Except for Vanier, all of theses neighborhoods were part of the pre-2002 city of Quebec.

Except for this period of Wallachian rule, the town itself was centre of the surrounding royal estates.

* Japan: " Except for Tokyo, all data refer to shi, a minor division which may include some scattered or rural population as well as an urban centre.

`` 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 the American designs, tank destroyers were all turretless and had fixed or casemate superstructures.

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 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 the partnership, all business forms are designed to provide limited liability to both members of the organization and external investors.

Except for a man of religion ( wadaad ), and they were few in number, all Somali males were considered potential warriors.

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 Pakistan, which received heavy inputs of aid from the United States, all other South Asian countries receive most of their aid from Japan.

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 group label, in all three conditions the description of the indoctrination process was identical.

Except for two scenes in all the novels, all Nexus inhabitants speak English, though they may know other languages or have a planetary accent.

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 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 a man of religion ( wadaad ), and they were few in number, all Somali males were considered potential warriors.

Except for Russia and Finland, all high-speed lines have been built to this gauge.

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.

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 for Dubhe and Alkaid ( Eta Ursae Majoris ), the stars of the Big Dipper all have proper motions heading toward a common point in Sagittarius.

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 Nebraska, which has unicameral legislature, all states have a bicameral legislature, with the upper house usually called the Senate and the lower house called the House of Representatives, the House of Delegates, Assembly or something similar.