The phrase "a salient exception" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to highlight a notable or prominent exception to a general rule or statement.
Example: "While most students performed well on the exam, there was a salient exception in the case of one individual who struggled significantly."
Alternatives: "a notable exception" or "a significant exception".
With one salient exception, there were no unforeseen tactics in World War I.
With the salient exception of the excellent rock single "Fit but You Know It," Skinner performs over a soundtrack drawn from English dance music, most of it foreign to American audiences.
One shortcoming has been a marked tendency to focus on contributions from the last two decades of the 20th century, the one salient exception being due attention paid to works by Roman Ingarden (e.g, 1931, 1962, and see the entry on Ingarden).
However, one salient exception was PD.
However, there is at least one salient exception to this hypothesised functional linkage between affect and level of goal/action identification: the level of identification adopted in clinical depression.
Nine academics out of ten never change their mind about anything; most (though there are salient exceptions, like Wittgenstein) lock into a position earlier in their careers and then defend it to the hilt.
Three salient exceptions to this new legal buy paradigm are: (1) high value ('bet the company') matters that are price insensitive; (2) cross and multiple-border transactions/litigation; and (3) challenges that demand specialized expertise or influence not resident in-house.
A salient problem here is what constitutes justified exceptions to equal distribution of goods — the main subfield in the debate over adequate conceptions of distributive equality and its currency.
[Author's response: We could not agree more; stereospecificity is a salient feature of enzymes, even if some exceptions are known; this comment has now been elaborated upon in the text].
