Sentence examples for except for official from inspiring English sources

"The Left would like to see them banned except for official government use".

Mr Brown has a son with cystic fibrosis but he has never allowed his family to be filmed or photographed, except for official portraits.

The new restrictions tighten a midnight curfew and bar military personnel from leaving their bases except for official business, work, worship or travel to and from off-base housing.

There was a photography studio, where portraits were made of certain prisoners, but, except for official purposes, such as documenting construction or a dignitary's visit, photography was forbidden; what went on at Auschwitz, as in all the camps, was regarded as a state secret.

Jay Hollis sought permission to convert his AR-15, a popular semi-automatic firearm, into an M16 -- an automatic firearm that is banned under federal law, except for official use or lawfully obtained pre-1986 models.

Except for officials from the Port Authority and New York Waterway, few people waited in the large glass-enclosed terminal.

Potential effects of future climate change on Lyme borreliosis were of concern to respondents from almost all countries except for officials from three Mediterranean countries (Italy, Malta, and Greece) and two Atlantic countries (Ireland and Iceland).

He's never spoken to them, except for an official noise complaint letter that came through his letter box via their lawyers after a house party.

He's never spoken to them, except for an official noise complaint letter that came through his mailbox via their lawyers after a house party.

Except for election officials and the members of candidates' staffs, not one Chechen interviewed over three days knew the correct number of candidates.

When the capital, Phnom Penh, was completely emptied, in 1975 — except for the officials who turned a high school into a torture center — Panh and his family were among the deportees shipped in cattle cars to labor camps.