Sentence examples for noble exception from inspiring English sources

Gendered cups are nonsense (with the noble exception of the Mooncup).

A noble exception to this avaricious rule is Ivor Dembina's Ten Quid New Year's Eve.

But before the rest crow, no business school in our ranking, with the noble exception of Cape Town, could claim that more half of its faculty is female.

And too often – with the noble exception of those who have been fighting for gay rights and immigration reform – he's had little challenge from progressives.

With the noble exception of Raymond Barre, who actually did balance the budget in the early 1970s, the French public deficit has been merrily and steadily escalating, under conservative governments as much as under socialist ones.

From around 1960, when Africa's colonies first became independent, until 1991, not a single one of Africa's 53 countries (now 54, including South Sudan), witnessed any leader or ruling party being peacefully voted out of office, with the noble exception of Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, in 1982.

With some noble exceptions, we failed to make the most basic human response and enter into their hearts and minds.

I particularly enjoyed the flaying of India's escapist, celebrity-fixated newspapers (not counting noble exceptions such as the – entirely non-sectarian - Hindu in Chennai).

With rare, noble exceptions — the Red Cross and United Nations High Commission for Human Rights and the refugee agency U.N.H.C.R. among them — the world's many international bodies have again been underwhelming.

It's notable that most of the people he meets in the hunting world, with the noble exceptions of Dixon, Denis Milden and Stephen Colwood, are unspeakably awful.

Most of the art here is American or European, though there are some noble exceptions; the fantastic young Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby is represented by a killer collage, depicting her and her husband in a tender moment on the dance floor.