The rule has certain well-recognized exceptions, particularly in cases arising in the federal courts.
My idea, which that punchy little epigram roughly approximates, is that there is only so much a given source of information can provide, and that if it has certain attributes, it by definition cannot have certain others (with exceptions, of course).
It was decided in 1914, eight years after passage of the Hepburn Act, which had, with certain exceptions, prohibited issuance of passes by railroads.
Both aim to resolve a number of dilemmas by arguing that the conflict is merely apparent; a discriminating understanding of the virtues or rules in question, possessed only by those with practical wisdom, will perceive that, in this particular case, the virtues do not make opposing demands or that one rule outranks another, or has a certain exception clause built into it.
I have certain commitments.
The blanket biblical prohibition against working on the Sabbath has always allowed certain exceptions -- for example, when a life is at stake.
Mitt Romney, like most recent Republican nominees, has noted that he supports certain exceptions to his party's proposed sweeping ban on abortion: he told CBS News that he favors exceptions in cases of rape, incest and when the health or life of the mother is endangered.
With certain exceptions, plains have become the sites of major centres of population, industry, commerce, and transportation.
It would have required a woman (with certain exceptions) to notify her husband before an abortion, not to obtain his consent.
Its most troubling feature is his opinion, fourteen years ago, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, when he defended a Pennsylvania law that, with certain exceptions, would have forbidden married women to terminate a pregnancy without first informing their husbands.
It stipulates that every family can have only one child, though certain exceptions apply.
