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The exception was the Western Caribbean Zone, which included the Caribbean coast and encompassed both semi-independent indigenous polities, runaway slave communities, and settlers, especially English settlers who would eventually form British Honduras ( the modern-day nation of Belize ), a sparsely populated area that was leased by the Guatemalans to Great Britain in eschange to construct a highway that they never finished, and stole and kept that land afterwards.
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The exception was an Iron Mountain settler named William Lewis.
Felix was the exception.
Mahayana Buddhism was no exception to these prevailing magical concepts.
In the popular Chinese mind, Ch'an ( Zen ) was no exception to the ideas of coarse magic that dominated.
The names were abandoned in Latin, which instead referred to the letters by adding a vowel ( usually e ) before or after the consonant ( the exception is zeta, which was retained from Greek ).
Those who have dealings with this book usually come to an unpleasant end, and Alhazred was no exception.
Monks, as a rule, were laymen, nor at the outset was the abbot any exception.
Amara seems to have been a Buddhist, and most of his work was destroyed, with the exception of what is the celebrated Amara-Kosha ( Treasury of Amara ), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the " Tripartite ".
This was almost inevitable since, with the notable exception of the generals ( strategoi ), each office could be held by the same person only once.
The only exception was the boule or council of 500.
His mind was entirely absorbed in the labors of his studio, and, with the exception of his journeys to Paris, one to Vienna, and a few short intervals of absence in Florence and other parts of Italy, he never quit Rome.
One exception to this rule was the Italian Cannone da 90 / 53 which was highly effective when mounted on trucks, a fit known as the " autocannoni da 90 / 53 ".
In 1820 the city wall was torn down, with the exception of the individual towers and gates, and the defensive ditches were filled in.
Resumed Ottomans rule in Aegina and the Morea was confirmed in the Treaty of Passarowitz, and they retained control of the island with the exception of a short-lived Russian occupation, until the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821.
In March 1880, a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan ; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as Amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent to it.
With the exception of the first term, it has been held by the Labour Party, and for seven years was held by Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister in 1924 and from 1929 to 1935.
The Barony of Grey of Codnor was an exception as the original claim had been submitted prior to these recommendations being made to the Sovereign.
The most notable exception was the XG-1 lightgun, which came bundled with the Atari XE Game System.
Much that happened between Nora and Torvald happened to Laura and her husband, Victor, with the most important exception being the forged signature that was the basis of Nora's loan.
The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.
The only exception to this rule is New Year's Day, in which case alcohol sales are permitted until 4 a. m. Alcohol sale was likewise banned on Sundays until 12p. m., and on Dec. 25 from 12 a. m. until 12 p. m, until a repeal in late 2010.
Indifference was also credited as an exception.
One notable Manifesto Group exception was its secretary, future Defence Secretary George Robertson, who was the only officer to remain.
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No meteorites have ever been recovered from paleoexplosion craters, and recent craters containing impact glass have all been produced by metallic meteorites with the exception of Aouelloul crater, Adrar, Western Sahara Desert.
With some refinements ( and the rare exception of the Kingma system and other custom adapted fingering systems ), Western concert flutes typically conform to Boehm's design, known as the Boehm system.
Western keyboard, drums and guitar instruction being an exception as it has found some interest ; mainly in an effort to create musicians to service contemporary popular Indian music.
An exception is deep fried types of preparation was introduced during the Edo Period due to influence from Western foods ( once called and Chinese foods, and became commonplace with the availability of oil due to increased productivity.
With the exception of the coastal plains, the ice age divided Latvia into three main regions: the morainic Western and Eastern uplands and the Middle lowlands.
Most people writing to a penpal do not use their native language in their letters, with the exception of natives in Western countries.
Western Sahara has no freight or passenger service railways, with the exception of a section of the Mauritania Railway ; which ( since the closure of the Choum Tunnel ), cuts across the extreme south-eastern corner of the territory.
Western civilization is no exception.
The Hallstein doctrine, however, became obsolete ; the two Germanies entered the United Nations side by side ; and most other states which hitherto only had diplomatic relationships to the Federal Republic established ambassadors, including the Western Allied ( a notable exception being the Holy See ).
In 19th century Western scholarship, the hypothesis of matriarchy representing an early stage of human development — now mostly lost in prehistory, with the exception of some so-called primitive societies — enjoyed popularity.
Since Western democracies are always justifying states of exception, they are failing as sites of political agency.
Apart from the ever-present calligraphic inscriptions, specifically religious art is actually less prominent in Islamic art than in Western medieval art, with the exception of Islamic architecture where mosques and their complexes of surrounding buildings are the most common remains.
With the exception of Texas and Oklahoma ( offset in blue ) -- which are counted as part of the Southern United States | South -- the Southwestern states are also classified as Western United States | West by the U. S. Census Bureau.
In the UK the pre-nationalisation railway companies standardised around systems operating on a vacuum of 21 inches of mercury ( 533. 4 Torr ), with the exception of the Great Western Railway, which used 25 inches of mercury ( 635 Torr ).
It was used in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and most of the other socialist member countries of the International Radio and Television Organisation in Eastern Europe ( OIRT ), with the exception of East Germany, which always used the 87. 5 to 100 ( later 104 ) MHz broadcast band in line with Western Europe.
Basilan used to be part of Western Mindanao ( the former name of Zamboanga Peninsula ), but in a recent plebiscite, the residents of some parts of Basilan opted to join ARMM, with the exception of Isabela City ( and Lamitan ).
With the exception of the F-14D ( officially retired as of September 2006 ), no 4th-generation Western fighters carry built-in IRST sensors for air-to-air detection, though the similar FLIR is often used to acquire ground targets.
Now, Emydidae, with the exception of two species of pond turtle, is entirely a Western Hemisphere family.
The Central Indo-Pacific includes the numerous seas and straits connecting the Indian and Pacific oceans, including the seas surrounding the Indonesian archipelago ( with the exception of Sumatra's northwest coast, which is part of the Western Indo-Pacific ), the South China Sea, the Philippine Sea, the north coast of Australia, and the seas surrounding New Guinea, western and central Micronesia, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga.
The Act granting self-government was passed by the House of Commons and assented to by Queen Victoria in 1890, giving complete autonomy in matters with the exception of Section 70 of the Act which established an Aboriginal Protection Board, under the control of the British Parliament, not the Western Australian one.
Most exercises from Japan ( with the exception of much of Ohno Kazuo's work ) have specific body shapes or general postures assigned to them, while almost none of the exercises from Western butoh dancers have specific shapes.
In 1979, the invasion of Afghanistan caused the United States and other Western countries to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, an act reciprocated when the Soviet and other Eastern Bloc countries ( with the exception of Romania ) boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
A notable exception is Panama, whose canal is currently needed by all Western nations, provides it with a unique type of immunity to international pressure.
With the exception of German Samoa, the German islands in the Western Pacific formed the ' Imperial German Pacific Protectorates '.
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