Sentence examples for except to establish from inspiring English sources

Because budget airlines charge the same fares for travellers aged 2, 22 or 102, they do not ask at the time of booking for childrens' ages - except to establish, for example, whether they are eligible to travel unaccompanied.

Revisionist historians like Gar Alperovitz argue persuasively that Washington believed the bombing militarily unnecessary (except to establish American primacy in the postwar order) because, as the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey put it in 1946, "in all probability" Japan would have surrendered even without the atomic bombs.

He didn't say I was cute but kind of fat, and if he had, why would she tell me, except to establish the one thing she had over me: that she was thinner than I was?

(Why, for instance, would you put a person in a space station for a year on her own, except to establish that she can't have become pregnant by ordinary means?) Indeed, much of what transpires in the first episode seems engineered merely to bring the main characters into one another's orbit.

Avoid using the names of cited authors except to establish historical precedent.

Such fragmentation makes it hard for any except luxury brands to establish a distinctive reputation.

But then you cannot say more about it than "nice" when it happens (and all goes well in its course), and just register a fact beyond your control, except perhaps trying to establish a "choice architecture" (Thaler & Sunstein, 2008) that may facilitate talk and walk across group lines - say, placing a playground not within but at the intersection of two ethnic neighborhoods.

Near the apex of the orbit numerous muscular and ciliary arteries are visible but the identity of these is difficult to establish except for a few muscular branches which continue as anterior ciliary arteries (5,9).

Orthologous relationships within this Aspergillus family are difficult to establish, except for a subfamily of HET and Ankyrin domain proteins, which appear to be related by direct vertical descent (data not shown).

It is an attempt to tell the story of what really happened, not to establish who (except for Turing, in the mathematical sense) was "first".

The departments told school systems that they may require parents to produce documents such as a utility bill or a lease to establish residency, except in the case of homeless children, who must be enrolled in any case.