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Simple sentences
Every team, without exception, was defeated.
I don't think that that's an exception.
We will make an exception of your case.
There is an exception to every rule.
Every team was defeated without exception.
Those regulations all apply to everyone without a single exception.
This is an exception to the rule.
This rule allows no exception.
The exception proves the rule.
Portugal is not an exception.
Portugal is no exception.
I'm not a woman hater; and if I were, I would make an exception for you.
We'll make an exception of your case.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
There is no rule without an exception.
Every law has its exception.
There is no rule without exception.
With the exception of him, nobody else came to the party.
With the exception of Mike, everyone was at the party.
Movie subtitles
Michelangelo's sculptures are anatomically perfect with the exception of female breasts.
Nothing inside of me, with the exception of my DNA, still links me to that person.
By the next day the master mind had completely solved the mystery. with the exception of locating the pearls and finding the thief.
That is, with the exception of a slight change.
Anyone constituting a menace to our organization is to be eliminated without exception.
Then he destroyed all of Wynant's clothes, with the exception of his watch chain.
After office hours, I occasionally make an exception.
Anyone with a white spot, without exception, shall be transported to a guarded camp.
There's one exception I'd make, Your Highness.
I've got all 12 blocks, everything with the exception of one little lot and I can't get the man to sell.
Do everything you have been doing, with one exception.
Your Honor, I must take exception to this line of questioning.
We're all bachelors with the exception of Professor Oddly, who is a widower.
The men are all missionaries, with the exception of myself.
They're the exception.
Always tall and made up. They pay for it. I'm an exception.
Why did you make. an exception for me. inviting me here?
Morris has to make an exception there, doesn't he?
Spanish sailors will have full freedom of the decks. with the exception of the powder magazine.
And what an exception.
There is one exception.
Yes, and I gather the estate is divided equally between all of us. with the exception of the two business interests.
I think it's the frontal lobe of your brain that can't quite get with it to make the right decision, and there's no exception with Lydia.
I WOULD, BUT SHE SEEMED REALLY STRESSED, SO I SAID WE COULD MAKE AN EXCEPTION THIS ONCE AND COME TO HER.
I'll make an exception in your case.
Is there a single exception?
I never could bear a thief at any price. However, she's an exception.
Exception. Doesn't he know the rules?
Listen, lady, I generally never sock a dame, but I'm inclined to make an exception of you.
With the exception of Port Wilson, half the other jobs were his.
But there is one exception.
News and current affairs
WASHINGTON, DC - Dropping bombs as a solution to the world's trouble spots may be falling out of fashion (with the notable exception of Libya), but finger wagging is definitely back in.
With the exception of the Obama administration's lack of resolve in denouncing the treatment of protesters by the US-allied regimes in Bahrain and Yemen, America's position on the Arab revolts has been welcomed.
The crisis does provide a political opportunity for bold moves on this front in many countries; but structural reforms generally will not generate growth and jobs immediately (one exception is permitting shops to open longer).
As the historian Douglas Irwin has documented, a major exception was the Swedish economist Gustav Cassel.
Here is where the Macri government's approach is an historical exception.
But, with the possible exception of Thailand in 1997, the IMF's long-time resident historian, James Boughton, finds little evidence for that view in internal documents.
Of course, diehard anti-Americans will never be persuaded, but they remain a minority, with the possible exception of the Muslim world.
If things do not change, the sort of independent military operation carried out by US soldiers will become less the exception than the rule.
Indeed, with the main exception of France, the euro does not seem to have been a blessing for the countries that adopted it.
But the United States is a major exception.
To date, Bush and Blair have failed to make the case to the world, with the partial exception of their own countries.
The status quo will argue that Enron is an exception: that its demise was due to fraud, that we have laws against fraud, and that those who violate these laws should and will bear the consequences.
Greece's fiscal profligacy was the exception rather than the rule.
Low competitiveness, too, is not an explanation, as real (inflation-adjusted) wage costs have declined by more in Greece in recent years than in any other eurozone country, with the exception of Ireland.
While the overwhelming majority of citizens are convinced that further armed conflict in the region is unlikely, the public's mood - with the exception of Kosovars and Albanians - is pessimistic.
This is true of a rather small group of rich countries (India is a partial exception), mainly in western Europe and its overseas offshoots, since World War II.
Yet, for advanced economies, periods of sustained rapid productivity growth have been the exception, not the rule.
Germany is an exception, though hardly a geostrategic heavyweight; and though Japan knows the horror of nuclear war, important domestic voices there are calling for a change of its non-nuclear status.
While many analysts in a wide variety of nations, especially in Europe, have concluded that such an event could not occur there in the foreseeable future, India is an exception.
But, with the notable exception of Japan, which suffered its deepest recession of the modern era, Asia came through an extraordinarily tough period in excellent shape.
With the exception of the Japanese participant, all had first-hand experience with the devastating Asian financial crisis of the late 1990's.
Latin America had a big debt crisis that broke out in 1982, but in fact there were almost no defaults (with the exception of Peru and, for a few months in late 1987, Brazil).
South Africa is a notable exception, offering the best prospect for driving regional economic integration, but it, too, has chronic social problems and, compared to East Asia, anemic economic growth.
The only exception is Japan, where a lack of political leadership and a limited knowledge of basic economics among government ministers undermines mid-term growth prospects.
For many years Bangladesh was an exception in the Islamic world, pursuing an independent course in a peaceful, secular, and democratic fashion.
But is Eastern Europe an exception?
With the exception of a small number of ideologically committed defenders of free enterprise, few were willing to take the risks inherent in letting major banks collapse.