Sentence examples for except to claim it from inspiring English sources

Except to claim it was "crazy" to think they might have any influence.

What have Johnson and Gove and the rest to say about all this, except to claim there is no hurry?

There was not much to accomplish here except to claim some sort of psychological edge before going home.

Candidates don't have a rationale for attacking her directly, except to claim that the agency would improve if they were elected.

Rivals, bloggers and technology-news sites disparaged its claims, saying that there was no good reason to put a 64-bit chip in a smartphone except to claim bragging rights.

Despite facing a raft of negative stories around the world, the world's most valuable company has so far refused to defend the error 53 policy, except to claim the measure was a security feature.

He made no mention of his opponents except to claim credit for pushing them to speak out strongly against Mr. Bush and promising he would not let them ease up.

The Labour leader paid no heed to the shouts, except to claim that the "country will thank neither the benches in front nor those behind for indulging in internal factional manoeuvring at this time".

Mencken ignores African-Americans, who under slavery were deprived of their identities and the right to determine their children's, except to claim that they, "like the white immigrants, have a great liking for fancy given names".

But no one claimed it except those of us who never crossed paths, who left only beer bottles, bottle caps, cigarette butts behind as artifacts.

He chose to be a man, not an artist, in this painting, and to claim no dignity except that which everyone deserves.