With a few important and a few more unimportant exceptions, no expression can be deemed le mot juste for its context, because each was very probably the only expression that long-established practice and ease of rapid recitation would allow.

The 2 exceptions are the " non-standard " or " non-canonical " pyrrolysine — found only in some methanogenic organisms but not humans — and selenocysteine ; both of these are encoded via variant codons signaled by mRNA instead.

He was at the same time capable of forming and executing the most daring offensive strategy, and his tactical skill in the handling of troops, whether in wide turning movements, as at Würzburg and Zürich, or in masses, as at Aspern and Wagram, was certainly equal to that of any leader of his time, with only a few exceptions.

Blue laws often prohibit an activity only during certain hours and there are usually exceptions to the prohibition of commerce, like grocery and drug stores.

The only two exceptions to this are the sea otter ( Enhydra lutris ), which has four incisors in the lower jaw, and the sloth bear ( Melursus ursinus ), which has four incisors in the upper jaw.

Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.

The only exceptions to this were Kirstie Alley and the deceased Nicholas Colasanto.

Water clocks, also known as clepsydrae ( sg: clepsydra ), along with the sundials, are possibly the oldest time-measuring instruments, with the only exceptions being the vertical gnomon and the day-counting tally stick.

Crochet differs from knitting in that only one stitch is active at one time ( exceptions being Tunisian crochet and Broomstick lace ), stitches made with the same diameter of yarn are comparably taller, and a single crochet hook is used instead of two knitting needles.

Divine representations of the Cernunnos type are exceptions to the often-expressed view that the Celts only began to picture their gods in human form after the Roman conquest of Gaul.

Remaining cacti fall into only two genera, Pereskia and Maihuenia, and are rather different, which means that any description of cacti as a whole must frequently make exceptions for them.

There were only three exceptions, all relatively recent, to the rules:

" The Constitution grants the Governor-General a wide range of powers, but in practice he or she follows the conventions of the Westminster system and ( with rare exceptions ) acts only on the advice of the Prime Minister of Australia or other ministers.

During this interregnum, the heads of the dicasteries of the Roman Curia ( such as the prefects of congregations ) cease immediately to hold office, the only exceptions being the Major Penitentiary, who continues his important role regarding absolutions and dispensations, and the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, who administers the temporalities ( i. e., properties and finances ) of the See of St. Peter during this period.

Halakhic authorities may disagree on which laws fall into which categories or the circumstances ( if any ) under which prior Rabbinic rulings can be re-examined by contemporary rabbis, but all halakhic Jews hold that both categories exist and that the first category is immutable, with exceptions only for life-saving and similar emergency circumstances.

The CJLS has also held that the Talmudic concept of Kavod HaBriyot permits lifting rabbinic decrees ( as distinct from carving narrow exceptions ) on grounds of human dignity, and used this principle in a December 2006 opinion lifting all rabbinic prohibitions on homosexual conduct ( the opinion held that only male-male anal sex was forbidden by the Bible and that this remained prohibited ).

In Italy, almost all Romance languages spoken as the vernacular ( other than standard Italian and other unrelated, non-Italian languages ) are termed " Italian dialects "; the only exceptions are Sardinian and Friulan, which the law recognises as official regional languages.

The majority of all Id Tech 4 games, including those made by other developers, have a Linux client available, the only current exceptions being Wolfenstein and Brink.

Similarly, almost all of the games utilizing the Id tech 2 engine have Linux ports, the only exceptions being those created by Ion Storm.

There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.

Forty-eight states ( Texas and West Virginia are the exceptions ) have a model set of instructions, usually called " pattern jury instructions ", which provide the framework for the charge to the jury ; sometimes, only names and circumstances have to be filled in for a particular case.

It is only in mammals that the kidney takes on its classical " kidney " shape, although there are some exceptions, such as the multilobed reniculate kidneys of cetaceans.

This image transformation generally requires digital signal processing, so letterboxing was the only way in which films were presented in widescreen on home video prior to the DVD format ( with a few exceptions outside the mass market, such as Squeeze LD ).

There are exceptions within subjectivism however, such as ideal observer theory, which implies that moral facts may be known through a rational process, and individualist ethical subjectivism, which holds that moral facts are merely personal opinions and so may be known only through introspection.

Classical examples of exceptions to this rule include native mercury, which crystallizes at-39 ° C, and water ice, which is solid only below 0 ° C ; as these two minerals were described prior to 1959, they were grandfathered by the International Mineralogical Association ( IMA ).

Guerrillas were only a dozen yards away, charging the house.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

The horses were only several lengths away when he fired.

Atonement, if atonement were possible, could only be made at that sacred, sacrificial basin.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.

They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.

Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.

In the jungle, birds were mute, while insects preserved only the monotony of living.

Jack knew of course that the tale to be unfolded would involve a girl and probably be dirty, because girls were Charles' only apparent interest.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

It was Dandy Brandon, clad only in a bloody loincloth, emaciated and quaking as if the devil were breathing hard on him.

In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals might not be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose-tea to drink ; ;

it was mud in wet weather and dust, ankle-deep, in dry, and could be crossed only at the corner where there were stepping stones.

After only eighteen years of non-interference, there were already indications of melioration, though `` in a slight degree '', to be sure.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.