Sentence examples for except for giving from inspiring English sources

And nothing was gained from this exercise in vanity except for giving the cretinism of creationism a big stage.

The Microsoft deal has no real value except for giving Microsoft a beachhead in China.

Amazon is not revealing take-up numbers for the US service to date except for giving a predictably upbeat spin on it: "We've been thrilled with customer reaction to the launch of Amazon Music Unlimited in the U.S. last month and we're excited to quickly bring the service to customers in the UK," said Steve Boom, VP Amazon Music, in a statement.

And after completely ignoring China's myriad trade abuses, except for giving it the slightest slap on the hand for its 40% currency manipulation which Secretary Geithner just declared to be a "significant development", how could he then at the end of the speech laud China for "reopen[ing] their market to American pork and pork products"?

Among all participants, there were no statistically significant differences in self- reported STD management practices between the pre-test and the follow-up test except for giving card referrals for partners or sexual contacts, which for midwives fell from 68.5% in the pre-test to 46.2% follow-up test.

These algorithms were applied once all the images had been collected except the face detector used for giving audio feedback in real time.

21 No patients were treated with any immunomodulatory or immunosuppressive therapy, except for steroids given for acute clinical relapses.

In addition, students' existing mastery-approach orientations for mathematics strongly predicted knowledge transfer for all of the instructional conditions except for students given invention activities with a performance framing.

However, when 40 years of data are considered, no single model except for one gives RPC values above 1 (the upper whisker of the distribution for D_ M E F R just reaches 1).

Conversely, except for example given in Figure 1, example d., power estimates were greater than 80% for tested OR K ≥ 12, for all the tested hypotheses.

Except for those given to Rubens, Tiepolo, Delacroix, and Puvis de Chavannes, there were relatively few important mural commissions in the period following the High Renaissance.