Sentence examples for civilians except for from inspiring English sources
The Iranians put the number of chemically dead and injured at several thousand - all Iraqi Kurdish civilians except for a handful of Iranian soldiers who could not get their gas masks on in time.
When I was growing up in Bulgaria in the 1970s and 80s, this entire region was heavily militarised and out of bounds for civilians, except for those who lived here.
In those halcyon days the army was remote from civilians except for romantic and tragic memories of World War I and other previous wars.
As we noted, there's a two-decade age gap between veterans and non-veteran civilians, and, except for the very old, the homeownership rate is higher for older adults.
Germany is a notable exception, delegating the trial and punishment of military personnel to the civilian courts, except for the most petty of offenses.
In May 2010, the South Korean government banned all civilian visits to North Korea, except for missions to provide humanitarian aid for children and victims of natural disasters.
The 68 defendants – all ex-armed forces and police except for two civilians – are implicated in crimes against 789 victims, a third of whom survived their ordeals.
Many Afghan civilians are armed for protection.
Mortality estimates include both civilians and combatants for all causes.
The dead were soldiers, except for one civilian.
The Russians were in an assortment of civilian clothes, including American‐style levis, except for their escorting officer, who was in Soviet Army summer uniform without insignia or rank.
