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The phrase "an exception to the statement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that a particular case does not follow the general rule or assertion made in the statement.
Example: "While the policy applies to all employees, there is an exception to the statement for those on parental leave."
Alternatives: "a deviation from the statement" or "an exclusion from the statement".
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The Moon is not an exception to the statement made by my utterance of (11) because the Moon does not lie in the domain of quantification associated to my use of the quantifier.
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During the past few decades, judges have begun to worry about the fairness of prosecuting people for the natural impulse to deny their guilt, and several federal courts carved out an exception to the False Statements Act, called the "exculpatory no," which held that certain lies of self-protection weren't felonies.
The only way Zimmerman's statements could have been introduced into evidence and considered by the jury is if the prosecution somehow opened the door to allow the defense to use them, or to introduce the statements itself, the same way that prosecutors typically introduce a defendant's confession, or other incriminating statements, as an exception to the rule against hearsay.
45 Mexico City is not an exception to that statement.
As a fourth-generation Brooklynite and a proud graduate of P.S. 119, I take exception to the statement that Brooklyn is being revived by chic new restaurants in Fort Greene, artists' lofts in Williamburg and the transformation of derelict factory buildings into million-dollar condominiums in Dumbo (front page, Jan . 16.
SIR —I take exception to the statement that federal judges have a better reputation than state judges.
But I want to take exception to the statement about stimulants.
While I am happy she chalked that up to societal factors rather than to innate ability, I still take exception to the statement.
We also take exception to the statement that the indictment of Red Cross contract workers on fraud charges "did not help the group's reputation," since it was our own people who detected and reported this fraud.
An exception to this statement is the work of Laing and Troy [17], who proposed an equivalent partial differential equation (PDE) formulation of the neural field equation.
An exception to this statement is the onset of cancer.
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