Sentence examples for except to prepare from inspiring English sources

During the next 12 years, Americans had little role to play in the Cold War except to prepare for the nuclear war that, for many anxious years, seemed inevitable.

We ask nothing from the founders except hard work to prepare to be onstage.

The mice were housed in rooms at a controlled temperature of 22 °C and 26% humidity, with light dark cycles of 12 h, and fed with water and a standard pellet ad libitum except when fasted overnight to prepare for the oral gavage.

(Except, one would presume, how to prepare sashimi).

Ladurée will bring two chefs from France to prepare everything except the iconic macarons and chocolates.

In our survey of public and private providers' knowledge and reported prescribing practices for treatment of childhood diarrhea, nearly all providers in all cadres correctly described how to prepare ORS (except for private providers, for whom only 68% had such correct knowledge) and reported routinely prescribing ORS to treat diarrhea in children.

We used the same approach to prepare human NAT2, except that induction with isopropyl β-d-1-thiogalactopyranoside (500 μM) was performed at 30°C for 8 hr followed by a 12-hr incubation at 4°C.

The procedure for the preparation of 7 from 6 described above was followed using acid 11 to prepare 3-OCS-CoA, except that mtFadD19 was used.

Extensive attempts to prepare other crystal forms and to prepare heavy atom derivatives were also not successful except for one crystal that was prepared in the presence of trifluoroethanol and nicotinamide 8-iodoadenine dinucleotide (8ID in the PDB file, hereafter termed NAD), which we thought might be useful for phasing.

"In tournaments matches are cup finals, one-off games.There are no guarantees you can ever give except prepare properly and hope you get the players you want on the field at the right moment".

The concept behind this shift in terminology is that the phrase "natural disasters" conveys the perception that if disasters are natural there is little that can be done, except by preparing to respond to them, instead of reducing vulnerability and building resilience, which need to be the focus of risk reduction and management policies.