Sentence examples for except for the ability from inspiring English sources

Mr. Zayan, who has a charming accent and a neat salt-and-pepper beard and who favors spotless Adidas and pristine white shirts, says that — except for the ability to smoke indoors — he does not miss Paris.

For example, the majority opinion that only marriage, and not civil unions, would be permissible under the state Constitution was brusquely dismissive of Justice Martha B. Sosman's dissenting argument that civil unions would give gays exactly what marriage would, except for the ability to name it marriage.

This gives rise to two possible configurations of chiral molecules, thus providing for a distinction between distinct substances whose physical and chemical properties are the same except for the ability to rotate plane polarized light in different directions.

Well, that is, except for the ability to carry a bag.

Stratification of resource availability by hospital category (normal/high volume) did not suggest any major differences (data not shown) except for the ability to undertake blood culture; available in 8/10 high-volume hospitals and 2/12 low-volume hospitals.

In the coupling case, we also show that except for the ability to induce synchronized switching, intracellular noises can play a role of amplifier for gene expression in every toggle switch.

Mean inter item correlations were above 0.20 and below 0.50 for all subscales except for the "Physical ability" subscale which was 0.19.

Patients must have shown resolution of all prior chemotherapy or radiation-related toxicities to Grade ≤1, except for alopecia, and the ability to complete the PNQ without assistance from study-site personnel.

Except, perhaps, the ability to invite each other out for lunch.

That is, I suppose, a reflection of my general distaste for the whole cult of celebrity - not just the adoration of people with no merits except the ability to be photographed for newspapers but, equally, the assumption that a person of distinction is in every particular worth both admiration and imitation.

The national anthem kicked off Saturday's qualifying round, but little else resembled an Olympic event except for the impressive athletic ability.