War accomplishes nothing except to ensure the conditions for further war and to maintain dominance of humanity's collective mindset.
In the latter case, no particular policies are required except for those that ensure that the energy prices include all costs (and hence the private return equals the social one).
United States copyright law protects the creations of performing artists, composers, writers and virtually every other kind of creator - except for visual artists - by ensuring they receive royalties for the resale of their work.
The dates of the batizados are not chosen for any particular reason, except to ensure that they do not coincide with other batizados in the area and thus avoid losing potential spectators.
Every other government in the world, except for Papua New Guinea's, has passed laws ensuring that parents can take leave to care for their families without risking financial ruin.
Men have written candidly to me about my open attitude toward a fetish they were once so ashamed of, ensuring me that, except for the more stalker-driven enthusiasts into amputees, Rec-Orthos are a sweet bunch who are just more turned on than most guys at the sight of me at the podiatrist.
As all teams used SDQs as the preliminary screen for hyperkinetic disorders, this protocol ensured that (except for cases transferred from elsewhere, already diagnosed) the SDQ used in the study was collected prior to clinical diagnosis of a hyperkinetic disorder.
However, for the current investigation rationally designed strains were deliberately chosen to ensure isogenicity, except for the two initial xylose assimilating pathways, so that it can be reasonably assumed that the metabolism of the strains is controlled by the same regulatory system.
The sedentary control animals were housed in the same laboratory as the runners to ensure that, except for the treadmill sessions, the two groups shared the same environment and routine.
Moreover, to make causal inference more convincing, we ensured that, except for year variables, all explanatory variables are lagged by one period.
