Sentence examples for except for the capital from inspiring English sources

The southern part is much brighter than the northern part, which is mostly dark except for the capital city of the North - Korhogo.

The fleet disembarked an army, led by Alexios Philanthropenos, which swiftly secured the entire island except for the capital, Mytilene.

Gradually, Licario reduced the Latin strongholds on the island, until, by 1278, he had seized almost all of it except for the capital, the city of Negroponte (Chalkis).

By May 1997, they controlled almost the whole of Zaire except for the capital Kinshasa; Mobutu fled and the AFDL took the capital without fighting.

The predominantly Muslim, rural and indigenous population of these districts do not differ from other districts in Kashmir except for the capital, Srinagar.

All counties, except for the capital Oslo, were visited every third year and each time a new cohort aged 40 42 was invited.

Except for Doha, the capital of Qatar, which last week became the official host of the 2001 W.T.O.

Towns are small (except for Bryansk, the capital) and engaged chiefly in processing farm products and in engineering.

Though he has promised to step down, he showed no sign of actually doing so.Kenya sent tanks and armoured cars into Somalia to attack the Shabab, the Islamist militia that controls most of the southern part of Somalia except for Mogadishu, the capital.

~ Financial and economic values for the capital items (except for buildings) were considered equal.

Names of cities and ports except for the two capitals of China were circled in bright yellow.