Sentence examples for except when needed from inspiring English sources

In an overdue but welcome effort to protect Afghan civilians from errant airstrikes, one of General McChrystal's first acts in command was to impose strict new limits on air attacks except when needed to protect American and allied troops.

I have never detected a resolute commitment to being a "good European" on the part of any British government, no attempt to move past centuries of holding aloof except when needed to help maintain the balance of power on the continent.

Except when needed to cast a tiebreaking vote, the Vice President rarely actually presides over the Senate.

Trying to figure that cadence out, and also not make it the elevated public persona that she put on except when needed, was quite a challenge.

Except when he needed to get pivotal outs.

Then, as now, the Sunday papers rarely published poems, except when they needed to fill a column, but Kilmartin was determined to make it a regular feature.

"Very few were tempted to tell the outside world what was happening, except when they needed extra help," he said, singling out the Secretariat of State – in effect the Church's diplomatic corps – as one department that appeared particularly secretive.

He cared only for his two German shepherd pups and barely acknowledged his own press agent except when he needed an opponent for Ping-Pong.

By February, she was housebound, except when she needed to see her doctor, and was spending much of her days sleeping.

All statistical tests used were non-parametric except when we needed to perform a weighted test.

From this point, we will refer indistinctly to codons and their cognate tRNAs, except when strictly needed.