Sentence examples for exception to a rule from inspiring English sources

This MSF-report and online debate seem a welcome exception to a rule of closedness.

Accommodating his faith doesn't hurt anyone else; it just requires making an exception to a rule of uniformity that was never truly uniform.

In a neighborhood that has "boutiqued over the years," as the author John McPhee puts it, Blue Point Grill is a welcome exception to a rule of receding mom-and-pops and ever-arriving national chains.

Euthanasia would be much more likely to pass from an exception to a rule, the bioethicist argued, "in the context of demographic and budgetary pressures on Social Security and Medicare as the Baby Boom generation begins to retire, around 2010".

The Classification and Ratings Administration (Caro) has also granted the film an exception to a rule requiring a film to be withdrawn from cinemas for 90 days before being re-released so as not to confuse moviegoers with two versions.

Wales will not have their England-based players for the two fallow weekends of the Six Nations with Premiership Rugby insisting next week is an exception to a rule that remains, and by releasing players on a weekend when they would not have played anyway because it is an Anglo-Welsh Cup round, the clubs are depositing goodwill in the global season debate.

Is 2010 an exception to a general rule of growing diversity?

However, this situation appeared to be an exception to a general rule.

Steve Jobs was the brilliant exception to a billion rules.

Egypt is no exception to an old rule.

Apple, thanks to Jobs, was an exception to this rule, but it was an exception to a lot of rules.