Sentence examples for exceptions to a rule from inspiring English sources

I haven't yet had the chance to take the new Pandora for a spin, but early reactions peg it as a promising addition to the Windows Phone ecosystem and with any luck these sorts of polished submissions won't just be exceptions to a rule going forward.

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.

Womack, assistant director of writing at Tulane University, encourages instructors to rethink accommodation as normative rather than an exception to a rule.

"One of the most painful things you can tell yourself is that you are the exception to a rule," she says.

An exception to a rule?

In fact, there are 211 exceptions to a new rule in the New York State Legislature.

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.