Sentence examples for except the battle from inspiring English sources

Patton was credited with every achievement of Allied arms in the European & N. African operations except the battle of Stalingrad.

"In that film she is in almost every scene except the battle, and she was working literally from morning till night.

"It was an extraordinary sensation," he says, "and oddly appropriate somehow to the unreality of the film, which disregards everything except the battle of the sexes, and dismisses the lure of the era with a nostalgic ridiculing of the Charleston.

Matsueda was responsible for all the music except the battle, opening, and ending themes.

For the majority of us, including myself now, sport isn't about winning - except maybe the battle against the bulge.

Though lying in a rich district near prehistoric regions associated with Niobe and Tantalus, and itself going back to the 5th century bc, it is of little importance except for the battle of winter 190/189 bc, described in Livy, xxxvii, when the Romans under Lucius Scipio decisively defeated Antiochus III and threw him back permanently to the other side of the Taurus range.

At one point he doubts if Scotland was ever "triumphant and happy" except after the Battle of Bannockburn, which consolidated the independence of Scotland in 1314.The republication of the "Journal" is part of a series begun in 1987 by Canongate Books Ltd, an Edinburgh publisher, and which now numbers more than 80 volumes.

Alice McDermott's use of time builds a certain amount of suspense, and no more will be said of what happens to Sheryl and Rick, except that the battle in the opening pages is between Rick and his high-school friends and the men who live in Sheryl's neighborhood.

Technically, it's still supposed to be 480 BC, but these warriors are taken from completely arbitrary points in history – except for the battle rhino, which is taken from no point in history, and can only have escaped from Lord of the Rings.

In truth, there was no specific plan except to continue the battle.

Really that's about it, except for all the battle rounds pre, midst of, and post.