Except for cases with a bad local minimum, this produces a good clustering, but runtimes may be unacceptably long.
A thorough necropsy is a superior tool for establishing a cause of death, except for cases involving euthanasia for traumatic accidents or severe locomotor disorders.
The Supreme Court hears cases on matters arising under the constitution and laws of the kingdom, except for cases concerning titles to land.
Other than those minor cases, district and family courts are the courts of first instance—except for cases involving insurrection, which are tried in the high courts.
Except for cases of hard drugs used as stimulants, most countries do not prosecute against doping, and the issue was the subject of intense negotiations before the Games between Italian and Olympic organizers.
The simplified methods of analysis are found to be reasonably accurate for most practical cases of structural system and self-centering system parameters except for cases of long period structures and when near-fault, pulse-like ground motions are considered.
Except for cases with both much noise and small displacements, it is possible to compute displacements with high cross correlation coefficients and small errors, with respect to measured displacements.
However, the confirmation of the results is not always possible except for cases where the cracks are visible from the surface or in case specific model defects are placed during casting of specimens.
It automatically hears all appeals from lower courts, except for cases involving death penalties, elections, constitutionality of laws, actions of state regulatory agencies, and bonded indebtedness, which go directly to the Supreme Court.
Except for cases of extreme loss, in which lawsuits would be permitted, suits to get greater sums would be prohibited, depriving personal-injury lawyers of a ready supply of clients.
Except for cases in which exact language is lifted without credit, or a character's name and likeness are used, and claims of literary theft against novelists are difficult to prove and tend to collapse in court, as they have in lawsuits brought against best-selling writers like J.K. Rowling and Michael Crichton.
