Sentence examples for leading exception from inspiring English sources

(The leading exception is Harry Pearce, a lawyer who was vice chairman of General Motors before resigning last month to become chairman of Hughes Electronics, a G.M. subsidiary).

Berkshire Hathaway, which trades 40% over its book value, is now the leading exception to the rule that conglomerates destroy the value of the firms they own rather than add to it.

However, the relations between the key parameters affecting surface liquid wetting behaviour under realistic conditions are not very well understood, especially for typical engineering materials and lubricants (oils), often leading to exceptions and contradictions, which impede their use in engineering models and theories, and so the possible optimisation of the interfaces of engineering systems.

He could be option No. 2. Art Briles: He is leading, with the exception of Texas A&M, the "it" program in Texas and definitely the "it" program in the Big 12.

The gap between affluent and deprived practices was wider for PA, than for RA, which is not surprising: comorbidity levels are higher 34 and education levels are lower in more deprived areas (education deprivation is one of the seven domains of the IMD score), potentially leading to higher exception rates due to contraindication or informed dissent.

26 Comorbidity in conduct disorder seems to be the rule rather than the exception, 3 leading some to suggest that the presence of concurrent conduct disorder and depression is less likely to be an example of comorbid disease processes and more likely to be an underlying feature of conduct disorder itself.

Through the collaboration and interaction between different agents, the architecture that we propose can enhance the flexibility to handle unexpected exceptions, thus leading to agile procurement management.

Meristem allocation models are based on the distinction that vegetative and inactive meristems can remain indeterminate, but commitment of meristems to reproduction is with few exceptions irreversible, leading to consumption of the meristem by the end of the reproductive season [ 4, 13].

With leading shares edging lower, an exception is Aberdeen Asset Management.

They went away to prison, with the exception of the leading informer, Francis Featherstone, who transferred into the witness protection program.

A hundred years ago, every single leading Muslim intellectual, with the exception of the proto-fundamentalist Al-Afghani, saw western modernity as deeply congenial and, even though they hated European colonialism, many wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.