Almost without exception in early literature, blind people could bring this condition down upon themselves through sin or trespasses against the gods, but were never the sole instruments of its reversal.

With the sole exception of en passant, all pieces capture opponent's pieces by moving to the square that the opponent's piece occupies.

As a result, Europe is a continent free of the death penalty in practice, all states but Russia, which has entered a moratorium, having ratified the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, with the sole exception of Belarus, which is not a member of the Council of Europe.

The dictator was the sole exception to the Roman legal principles of having multiple magistrates in the same office and being legally able to be held to answer for actions in office.

* A player is considered down when any part of his body other than the feet or hands touches the ground or when the ball carrier is tackled or otherwise falls and loses possession of the ball as he contacts the ground with any part of his body, with the sole exception of the holder for field goal and extra point attempts.

Empress Gemmei, who was followed on the throne by her daughter, Empress Genshō, remains the sole exception to this conventional argument.

Empress Gemmei, who was followed on the throne by her daughter, Empress Genshō, remains the sole exception to this conventional argument.

Empress Gemmei, who was followed on the throne by her daughter, Empress Genshō, remains the sole exception to this conventional argument.

A full-size replica of Godzilla's foot was also built, albeit all of the scenes in which it is used were removed from the American version ( the sole exception being a shot of the foot crushing a row of parked cars during the attack on the nuclear power plant ).

It is generally accepted that the phyla comprising modern Eukaryota share a common multicellular ancestor, but with the sole exception of one subphylum of the phylum Chordata, all those phyla are classified as invertebrates along with two of the three subphyla in the Chordata: Tunicata and Cephalochordata.

This is always CV ( consonant onset with vowel nucleus ), such as ka, ki, etc., or V ( vowel ), such as a, i, etc., with the sole exception of the C grapheme for nasal codas usually romanised as n. This structure had some scholars label the system moraic instead of syllabic, because it requires the combination of two syllabograms to represent a CVC syllable with coda ( i. e. CVn, CVm, CVng ), a CVV syllable with complex nucleus ( i. e. multiple or expressively long vowels ), or a CCV syllable with complex onset ( i. e. including a glide, CyV, CwV ).

On his father's death in 814, he inherited the entire Frankish kingdom and all its possessions ( with the sole exception of Italy, which remained within Louis's empire, but under the direct rule of Bernard, Pepin's son ).

The sole exception to the transformation of League of Nations mandates into UN trusteeships was that South Africa refused to place South-West Africa under trusteeship.

Even though Byzantine emperors maintained a claim over the territory, and no barbarian king in the west dared to elevate himself to the position of Emperor of the West, Byzantine control of most of the West could not be sustained ; the reconquest of the Italian peninsula and Mediterranean periphery by Justinian was the sole, and temporary, exception.

The sole exception is the historic sacrificial lamb, which is never part of the modern Jewish holiday but is still a principal feature of Falashah, Karaite and Samaritan observance.

Few other characters notice these or experience similar anomalies ; the sole exception is Gumm's supposed brother-in-law, Victor " Vic " Nielson, in whom he confides.

The sole exception is the region directly under a tiny geostationary moon of the internal sun ; that region as a result is under a perpetual eclipse and is known as the Land of Awful Shadow.

The sole exception was the 8th.

As a consequence, English law and American law diverged, with American legislators possessing no means by which to declare judicial invalidation of statutes incorrect ( with the sole exception of proposing a constitutional amendment, which is rarely successful ).

The sole exception is Epiperipatus imthurni, of which no males have been observed ; reproduction instead occurs by parthenogenesis.

The events within the men's and women's programmes are either identical or have a similar equivalent, with the sole exception being that men contest the 50 km race walk.

The sole exception, since 1815, is in cases involving freedom of the press, prosecuted under Chapter 7 of the Freedom of the Press Act, part of Sweden's constitution.

The sole exception was the rule of the Malatesta, who took the city in 1348 taking advantage of the black death and of a fire that had destroyed many of its important buildings.

People are expected to pay back debts using all available funds, with the sole exception of their personal oxygen ( considered a public utility ).

For the Orthodox, Saturday — with the sole exception of Holy Saturday – is never a strict fast day.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

This help is offered to applicants who ordinarily would not undertake the exploration under present conditions or circumstances at their sole expense and who are unable to obtain funds from commercial sources on reasonable terms.

For our present purposes we assume that the sole subject of bargaining is the basic wage rate ( not including productivity improvement factors or cost-of-living adjustments ), and it is this basic wage rate which determines the level of costs.

I believe rather that it is due to the catastrophic world in which that creativity seemed to be the sole value.

Yet for much of the globe, Hollywood is just that -- prime, if not sole, source of knowledge.

The aardvark is not closely related to the pig ; rather, it is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata, in which it is usually considered to form one variable species of the genus Orycteropus, the sole surviving genus in the family Orycteropodidae.

Agapanthus, native to South Africa, is the sole genus of the subfamily.

* Farming is the sole occupation which offers total independence and self-sufficiency.

It is drafted in reply to a birthday greeting from his followers, a manifesto proclaiming himself the sole representative of the Spanish monarchy.

The sole surviving manuscript from which almost every other is derived is a ninth-century Carolingian text, V, produced in Fulda from an insular exemplar.

This can be at preferential rates, as the sole client using the IT installation is the bank.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Politically, tourism is the more important of the two, as it employs a greater number of people within the Territory, and a larger proportion of the businesses in the tourist industry are locally owned, as are a number of the highly tourism-dependent sole traders ( for example, taxi drivers and street vendors ).

In general they are loosely organized " in-house " unions, although the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions ( BFTU ) is consolidating its role as the sole national trade union centre in the country .< ref >

The " floor " of a cabin is properly known as the sole, but is more likely to be called the floor ( a floor is properly, a structural member which ties a frame to the keelson and keel ).

In this case, the sole purpose of the bacterial step is the regeneration of Fe < sup > 3 +</ sup >.