Sentence examples for except that today's from inspiring English sources

Currently A2/AD strategy is much the same as it was when moats were dug around castles, except that today's moats are an integrated system of surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles, submarines, surface ships and aircraft — all designed to push enemy forces as far away as possible from strategically important areas". Read the full report ("Red Alert") here.

Thus what the classical economist — or the accountant or the stock exchange — considers "profit" is a genuine cost, the cost of staying in business, the cost of a future in which nothing is predictable except that today's profitable business will become tomorrow's white elephant.

Thus what the classical economist -- or the accountant or the stock exchange -- considers "profit" is a genuine cost, the cost of staying in business, the cost of a future in which nothing is predictable except that today's profitable business will become tomorrow's white elephant.

The complete S gene 3549-ntt segment, corresponding to 1182 aa) of MF3809 had high (93.3% 98.5% nt, 92.0%–98.0% aa) sequence identity to all known PEDV strains for which full-length S gene sequences were available in GenBank, except that MF3809 has the large deletion in its S gene.

This gas would be just like the gas we fill our cars with today — except that unlike today's gas, it would not add to global warming because it would recycle carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

So far so good, you might think, except that this year's award has prompted abnormal amounts of grousing.

Except that in today's Ethiopia the secret police proved to be one step ahead and Yalemzewd Bekele, a young human-rights lawyer working for the European Commission office in Addis Ababa, never made it.

NASD declined to say what other actions it could take except to say that yesterday's settlement resolved one investigation into Salomon's research practices.

It's sort of like that 2012 Mayan-apocalypse nonsense, except Peter's theory is the result of the hard work of a modern, living, and well-respected scientist rather than a bunch of dead Central American dudes whom hippies like to talk about while taking heavy psychedelic drugs.

He might have been a small-town pettifogger till the end of his days except that, in 1887, he read Henry George's "Progress and Poverty".

Except that in the 65Q90R's case (in its Standard preset mode, anyway), it's beautiful black levels are joined by levels of brightness that OLED simply cannot achieve.