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 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 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.

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.

Except for those minutes in her room, he had lost touch with her as a reality.

* Except for the Nuorese dialects, Latin single voiceless plosives in intervocalic position became voiced approximants, and single voiced plosives were lost: > ( or rather its soft counterpart ): locum > ( It.

Except in rare cases in the Ultra-Orthodox and Chassidic community, the practice of cherem ceased in the Age of Enlightenment, when local Jewish communities lost their political autonomy and Jews were legally enfranchised into the Gentile nations in which they lived.

Except for the efforts of member Alexis Godey, another 15 would have been lost.

Except for one, they are gone now, all lost due to their age and community development.

Except for Dinarchus, almost all of them have been lost to history or survive only in fragments.

Except in rare cases in the Haredi and Chassidic communities, herem stopped existing after The Enlightenment, when local Jewish communities lost their political autonomy, and Jews were integrated into the gentile nations in which they lived.

Except for Lubinsky, all the hot little numbers, like Buddy Johnson's " Cherry " would have been lost.

Except for some patches of small teeth on their palate and on the splenial bone on the inner side of their lower jaw, their mouth has lost all dentition and has been replaced with a horny sheath that resembles a beak.

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 two songs and some ballet music, it is presumed lost.

Except Calais hoverport ( which itself remains abandoned and subject to demolition ), all the cross Channel hoverports have now been lost.

Except in 1934 and 1938 when injuries handicapped him, and in 1948 when he lost form, Goddard took over 150 wickets in every season between 1932 and 1949, heading the first-class bowling averages in 1947 and 1949.

Except for licenses under the Bayh-Dole Act, the government is not a small entity for these purposes and small entity status would be lost.

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 the flow direction, the Amazon and the Hamza have very different characteristics.

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

Except for minor modifications, the Saints ' logo and uniforms have basically remained the same since the club debuted in 1967.

Except for the Superman cartoons and the features sold to MCA ( to end up with Universal ), most television prints of these films have had their titles remade to remove most traces of their connection to Paramount – the original copyright lines were left intact on Popeye cartoons ( the Popeye cartoons have been restored for DVD release with the original Paramount titles ).

Except for color changes, the Chargers have basically used the logo of an arc-shaped lightning bolt since the team debuted in 1960.

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

Except with their own consent, no judge or prosecutor can be dismissed, have his / her powers restricted, or be forced to retire.

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 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.

" Patton shot back, " Except for Operation Torch, which I planned and which was a great success, I have never been given the chance to plan.

Except in obvious pyogenic or toxic / chemical conjunctivitis, a slit lamp ( biomicroscope ) is needed to have any confidence in the diagnosis.

Except for the purge of the electoral rolls of " crypto-Orangists " and other reactionaries, it might therefore have been acceptable for the moderates, obviating the need for the January coup.

Except for a few experimental or military designs, all aircraft built to date have had all of their weight lifted off the ground by airflow across the wings.

Except for a brief period in the 1990s, High Life bottles have always been quite distinctive, as they have a bright gold label and are made of a clear glass that has a tapered neck like a champagne bottle.

Except for brief clashes with Morocco in 1976, the armed forces have not been involved in hostilities against a foreign power.

Except for some insects ( for example, ants ), all animals are still hunter-gatherer species, even though many have existed longer than the human species.

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 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.