Sentence examples for for any office except from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bloomberg's spending total, the largest spent for any office except the presidency, dominated much of the first day of the two-day hearing.

A13 NEW YORK/REGION B1-7 Bloomberg Spending Big In Re-election Bid Mayor Bloomberg has already spent nearly $50 million of his own money on his re-election campaign, according to campaign records, far ahead of the phenomenal pace of his spending in the 2001 election and putting him on track to break all records for expenditures for any office except the presidency.

Now, it's no secret that while I love all the patriots running for office EXCEPT the Communist sympathizer Barack Obama, I do have a special place in my heart for Lil' Ricky Santorum.

Except for (possibly) Eliot Spitzer, but it's hard to see him running for any office ever again.

But shorn of any office holders except local councillors, and there are not many of those, the Scottish party cannot offer many candidates for Scottish chairman.

Party conventions were instituted as a means of checking the abuses of the caucus system but also became subject to abuses, which led first to their regulation and ultimately to their elimination for most offices except president and vice president.

"Politics" is Bloomberg-speak for what everybody running for office does — except for him.

The law firm Jones Day, for instance, has shut its Tokyo office except to deal with urgent court filings.

In 1620 she took her vows as a Franciscan nun and in 1627 became abbess of a Franciscan monastery in Agreda, retaining this office, except for a brief period, until her death.

"But don't feel sorry for me," he says, facetiously, comfy in a hobnail-studded leather chair in his regally furnished office (except for the golf knickknacks) at 1 Centre Street.

Republicans now hold every statewide office except for that of Senator Bill Nelson, who now faces a challenge from Ms. Harris, and all but 7 of Florida's 25 seats in the House.