Sentence examples for except for holding from inspiring English sources

"We are creating soils that aren't fit for anything except for holding a plant up.

A sense of failure haunted him: except for holding onto power, he had succeeded in none of his plans.

Mr. Bush would mostly keep his hands off except for holding schools responsible for the progress of their students.

The cachots, the underground dungeons, had not been used for many years, except for holding recaptured escapees.

The measurements of the ligament tension in 90 and 20 degrees of flexion were performed without a supported foot, except for holding the lower leg in the required flexion position.

The slogan "Nothing can count as a reason for holding a belief except another belief" can't be right, he claims.

Two people stood in front of one room wearing bodysuits of what looked like uninflated balloons, standing motionless except for one holding his (or her?) outstretched hand, eagerly reciprocating handshakes from passersby.

Also, asymmetry in motivation, except for resource holding potential (RHP) and intrinsic aggressiveness, has been one of the main parameters of models of animal communication (Barlow et al. 1986; Maynard Smith and Harper 2003; Hurd 2006).

Dynastic divisions occurred in the early 17th century; but the Lippe-Detmold line, princes from 1720, reunited most of the Lippe lands except for those held by Schaumburg-Lippe.

The final reports were submitted in July 1972, but all were subsequently destroyed except for one held by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the Pakistani president.

All FGD participants were female sex workers, except for FGDs held in Cape Town where approximately half were transgender and male sex workers.