Sentence examples for brothers except for from inspiring English sources

He and Jesus could be brothers except for his haughty face, so hard and bony it could be a helmet.

Yet police records from this period show that Jaffar and his brothers, except for Amer, were at risk of becoming prolific offenders.

Change has been constant in the lives of the Brown brothers, except for that inalterable family dynamic: Herb as the older brother and protector; Larry as the better player and coach, the star of the family.

I still wore mostly hand-me-downs from my brothers, except for the two school dresses that were purchased each fall from the Atlantic Superama.

When we contacted this person he told us: 'Yes, I handed Anas over myself.' Since then we have not heard any news from my brother, except for some information that he was in Branch 291 State Security in Damascus.

It would be good music for a zany crowd scene in a Marx Brothers movie except for the bouts of harmonic adventure and rhythmic intensity.

The Time reviewer went on to say that "As for Bond, he might be [Philip ] Marlowes younger brother except that he never takes coffee for a bracer, just one large Martini laced with vodka".

After limiting analyses to relatives of the index cases not found to carry mutations, the SIRs remained elevated for all subgroups except for brothers and marginally so for mothers.

His wife, Justine, is glimpsed very briefly, without the children, and brother David is absent, except for a still image of his childhood in an old family snap.

But since taking over temporarily in the summer of 2006, he has largely operated in his brother's shadow, and, except for facilitating huge investments by Canadian and European resort developers here, he has brought about little change.

Currently, everybody and his brother is underweight treasuries except for the Chinese, who are dramatically overweight, as we all know.