Sentence examples for except officials from inspiring English sources

Except, officials said, it was all fake.

*All names, except official and historical ones, have been changed.

The police closed roads to all traffic except official cars and taxis in the immediate vicinity of St. Peter's Square.

The movie's scornful appraisal of American diplomats in Tecala sees them as slavishly beholden to the oil companies (which plan to run a pipeline into the area) and too powerless to offer Alice anything except official "sympathy".

They could have put this chip into the device itself but instead they hid the little bugger inside the headphones, ensuring that nothing else works with the Shuffle except official headphones.

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

In November 2009, he collected their money and bought a Mega Millions ticket that won, but he told no one except lottery officials.

It's pretty plain to everyone except council officials that what looks like a heap of problems is actually one: housing is too expensive.

The catch is that the rules can be found only in the zoning resolution, a 1,500-page 1,500-pageprehensible tomell except cincomprehensibleif itos even comprehensible to them.

Chinese voices were scarce, too, except for officials and people from semiofficial think tanks and universities in China, who tended to speak in stilted, predictable ways that didn't seem to me to cast a lot of light on things.

Plain to all - except the officials.