Sentence examples for except for acts from inspiring English sources

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"In the same way we want the electrical system never to fail we should have the same expectation that the sewer system never fail except for acts of nature," Ms. Meyland added.

Except for ACTs, the cost data were available for only a one-year period.

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Other drugs were diluted in saline with 0.5% dimethylsulfoxyde (DMSO) for NP-EGTA-AM or 0.1% for BAPTA-AM, except for ACT-D which was diluted in phosphate-buffered saline.

Except for individual acts of martyrdom, war is likely to lose its glory and lustre.

The report described how it carried out the Vichy government's orders with no protest or resistance except for isolated acts by individual railwaymen, and took payment for the shipments.

In the fall of 1999, anti-cockfighting canvassers... collected signatures endorsing a vote on a proposed new law that would define as felonious behavior just about everything I witnessed at the Texoma Game Club — except for the act of merely being a spectator, which would be a misdemeanor.

Passed in November 2014 by the Harper government, C-36 criminalizes pretty much every aspect of sex work except for the act itself.

There one more possible nod to faith: Like Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings," Emmet's heroic quest would fail except for an act of grace.

He lay unconscious, face down in his cap, and later told colleagues that he should have smothered in his own blood, except for the act of an unidentified Yankee, who had earlier shot a hole in his cap, which allowed the blood to drain).

These could obscure the results and were not included in the ACT-R model (except for the passive act of reading the words on the screen).

The heroine, Frannie (Meg Ryan), a teacher and occasional writer, takes all sorts of risks, but, except for her spasmodic acts in a phony, tacked-on ending (which is not in the book), she never fights for herself.

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