The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor which is itself a chordate, and that craniates ' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.

Over half of all living vertebrate species ( about 32, 000 species ) are fishes ( non-tetrapod craniates ), a diverse set of lineages that inhabit all the world's aquatic ecosystems, from snow minnows ( Cypriniformes ) in Himalayan lakes at elevations over 4, 600 metres ( 15, 000 feet ) to flatfishes ( order Pleuronectiformes ) in the Challenger Deep, the deepest ocean trench at about 11, 000 metres ( 36, 000 feet ).

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.

She has rarely been photographed with him and, except for Carl's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration in Chicago in 1953, she has not attended the dozens of banquets, functions, public appearances, and dinners honoring him -- all of this upon her insistence.

But I once again assure all peoples and all nations that the United States, except in defense, will never turn loose this destructive power.

Everything was all very friendly, except when it came to Harry, the youngest brother.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.

The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.

Drill all No. 50 and counter-drill all except the `` A '' pieces size 43.

Shotgun-type rubber recoil pads are standard on all of the Magnums except the

But the Russians use gymnastics as the first step in training for all other sports because it provides training in every basic quality except one, endurance.

A valid American driving license is accepted in all countries except Portugal, Spain, Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.

As we have noted, however, we are abstracting from changes in all determinants of this level except for changes in the wage rate.

After all, she had come to Spelman Seminary in 1888, and had been since 1891 except for one year, Associate Principal or Dean.

Under the new rules, testimony is taken orally in open court in all cases except those of an extraordinary character.

all were empty except one, and that one was jammed with letters and magazines.

So in the name of justice the magistrate cleared the court of all except officials to allow the captain to elaborate for almost an hour.

It's a solid show but, except for some interim keyboarding by Ernie, it's Al's all the way.

There are 12 of these to choose from, all of them of popular music except for the star release, Pass In Review ( SP-44001 ).

They had large bright eyes, the small upturned noses of all babies everywhere, and hair cropped short except for the long ringlets of paot framing their little white faces.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

`` You mean you dragged your wife all over hell's half-acre looking for work ''??

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

They blame us for all their troubles.

It poured out of him like an electric current, a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine-drawn body were coiling for action, and that that action would be all that he anticipated.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

`` Soon as we send them on their way and make camp, let's you and me go for a walk down by the Snake -- all by ourselves ''.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.

It was fun for me, all right.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.

`` I guess he spent the morning getting himself all organized, then headed for home.

`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??

I will make him distributor for all of Florida -- a big market.

Once and for all he'd finish this marine who would not die.

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

Alternate locations exist for all key command centers.

These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.

First of all, to Italy for a short vacation -- Forte Dei Marmi, a place he loves.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.