Sentence examples for conspicuous exception of from inspiring English sources

With the conspicuous exception of Jupiter, all the bright planets are poorly placed at present.

Everyone on the list was an illustrious high-achiever, with the conspicuous exception of Dan Gosling, footballer (21).

World leaders, with the conspicuous exception of Barack Obama, converged on Paris to show their support for freedom and liberty of the press.

Immigration reform is still stalled, and the top Republican presidential candidates, with the conspicuous exception of John McCain, are pandering to nativist voters.

The golfers treat Train poorly, with the conspicuous exception of Miller Packard, a cop who recognizes Train's intelligence — and his golfing talent — and eventually enlists him in a golf hustling enterprise.

Almost every woman is a porn-fantasy babe wearing hardly more than a come-hither smile and a thong - with the conspicuous exception of the ugly old broad of a judge who sentences Marv.

Southern central Iraq has been generally quiet, with the conspicuous exceptions of the firefight with a Shiite Muslim militia that killed three American soldiers in Karbala on Thursday night and the September bombing in Najaf that killed Ayatollah Muhammad Bakir al-Hakim, a Shiite cleric who was cooperating with the Americans.

But there has been at least one conspicuous exception to the overall pattern, and the main author of that exception is John Ashcroft.

Ayn Rand, however, is a conspicuous exception to this rule.

Surprisingly, the best characterized boundary Fab-7, represents a conspicuous exception to this rule.

Religions and religious institutions are treated with punctilious correctness here - with the very conspicuous exception, incidentally, of the Vatican.