Sentence examples for except for purposes from inspiring English sources

Barry Diller says, "Rupert is a pure conservative, except for purposes of manipulation".

At the other end of the spectrum, the three biggest states — blue California, red Texas, and blue New York — were utterly ignored, except for purposes of fund-raising.

Throughout literary history, many great critics have pointed out that it is artificial to make a distinction between form and content, except for purposes of analytical discussion.

There are no televisions, no newspapers, no music, no women, no education other than study of the Koran and Islam, and no electricity, except for purposes judged essential, such as the loudspeakers and antennas used by Sheik Muqbel.

Now that the EU has virtually halted all primary legal immigration except for purposes of family unification, however, about the only ways into the Union are to slip in or stay on clandestinely, or to try for asylum.

Montaigne himself rarely slept in his wife's bed, except for purposes of procreation; she gave him six daughters in thirteen years, and only one of them, Léonor, lived past infancy — a fact he dismissed with the unnerving remark (Montaigne experts are still arguing about why he made it and what it meant) that he had "lost two or three".

Last month, a bill was introduced to the West Virginia State Legislature that would make photographing a corpse a misdemeanor offense "except for certain legitimate purposes".

The trouble with them is that they suffer from a kind of anxious enthusiasm that leads them to imitate something else they have no business copying--except for the purpose of impressing the ignorant--and the result is phony.

4 The data are publicly accessible and available for use, except for commercial purposes.

Use of Nazi symbols except for educational purposes is illegal in Germany.

"This is really not a good idea, except for marketing purposes.