Sentence examples for except to refer from inspiring English sources
The rebel leaders didn't discuss politics, except to refer to their enemies as "bastards".
They know he doesn't like messes, he doesn't do serious well and he can't do follow-up answers except to refer reporters to James Baker, his Manchurian operator.
An Anadarko spokesman declined to comment except to refer to the agreement, which places liability solely on the operating partner in case of gross negligence or willful misconduct.
The first thing to do with the word "heresy", a special committee of the Episcopal Church reported recently, is to stop using it, except to refer to doctrinal struggles in the early Christian centuries.
The Top of the Standard remains one of the city's most fiercely guarded clubs, but André Balazs, the owner, is hushed about any V.I.P. list, except to refer to it, through his publicists, as a "core list".
Mr. Giuliani's office would not comment on the overall question of criticism by police officers, except to refer to a comment the mayor made earlier this week when asked to respond to remarks by Mr. Scotto, the head of the detectives' union.
"Built structures" is used here (except in historical reference) to refer to the generic built output resulting from architectural design, in recognition of a domain some view as broader than buildings per se.
Kripke's important contribution is to emphasize that this chain of transmission that attaches a name to an object is independent of our descriptions, associated beliefs — everything except our intention to refer to the same thing the person we learned the name from intended to refer to.
Without a patient's written consent, no case related information can be passed on except to the referred service.
When Tim is selected by Jamrach to accompany the seafarer Dan Rymer on a mission to the South Pacific to bring back what all except Jaffy refer to as a dragon – "It's not a dragon if it hasn't got wings," he protests, "not a real dragon" – Jaffy is compelled to join him on the crew of the creaky whaling ship Lysander.
Most of us are aware that the government "interferes" in the economy all the time, except we refer to it using the less negative-sounding term "economic management", because we don't think it's bad.
