Sentence examples for common except that from inspiring English sources

These two fact patterns have a lot in common, except that instead of endangering the life of one child, the company endangered the lives of many, and instead of anyone receiving prison time, the company agreed to pay a fine — which it will no doubt pass on to its customers and shareholders — that is, to us.

Campanell and McIntyre had little in common, except that, for a semester, they occupied that little room in Graterford.

They have little in common except that three of them serve truly superior Mexican food.

Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human".

Dear Bernard-Henri Levy, We have rien in common except that we are both rather contemptible individuals.

The two works have little in common, except that their plots don't make a whole lot of sense.

It's a common enough path – except that Lee was born severely deaf.

Rudy's candidacy might offer religious conservatives a chance to prove that they are capable of looking past the hot-button social issues if they can find a man with a deep understanding of the world and the ability to make Americans come together for the common good.... Except that Giuliani has no clue how to handle foreign policy and would have us all at each other's throats in 15 seconds.

The tribes would seem to have little in common, except, perhaps, that their maidens and matrons, like billions of women everywhere, suffer to be thought beautiful.

There is the unexpected kinship between Poland and the United States, countries that have little in common except the fantasy that they have been singled out for a remarkable destiny -- America chosen to liberate the rest of the world, and Poland, after centuries of attacks and occupations, assigned a noble martyrdom.

Considered materially (i.e., without reference to the experiences that we direct to them), the arts seem to have little in common except for those properties that are either too uninteresting to deserve philosophical scrutiny (the property, for example, of being artifacts) or else too vast and vague to be independently intelligible.