Sentence examples for limited exception from inspiring English sources

"In our society liberty is the norm," and detention without trial "is the carefully limited exception".

The Chief Justice wrote in 1987 that "In our society liberty is the norm, and detention prior to trial or without trial is the carefully limited exception".

Cannabis fell into the latter category, although a limited exception permitted it to be used for medical research.

There is a limited exception to this principle in the Welfare Reform Act 2009 for people convicted of benefit fraud.

Japan does provide a limited exception to the rule of American dominance, said Robert Alan Feldman, chief economist at Morgan Stanley in Tokyo.

The commentary makes a limited exception for judges who "make immediate and continuous efforts to have the organization discontinue its invidiously discriminatory practices".

The F.C.C. allows limited exceptions to the three-hour rule.

By 1970, a few states had carved limited exceptions out of what was essentially a nationwide ban on abortion.

There will be limited exceptions in the switch to so-called inert land mines, but the official would not specify them.

Rather, our checkpoint cases have recognized only limited exceptions to the general rule that a seizure must be accompanied by some measure of individualized suspicion.

People tend to approve of the first but, with strictly limited exceptions such as alcohol and (here and there) nicotine, to disapprove of the second.Some substances, though, fall into both categories.