Sentence examples for outstanding exception from inspiring English sources

EBay is an outstanding exception among Internet commerce companies -- large, fast-growing and solidly profitable.

The most outstanding exception is the extinct huia (Heteralocha acutirostris, Callaeidae), originally classified as two different species.

With the outstanding exception of Broadway's current "Private Lives," (no surprise, an English import), many misguided displays of pseudo-Coward have been studded with the wrong stars.

The Northwest Coast was the outstanding exception to the anthropological truism that hunting and gathering cultures or, in this case, fishing and gathering cultures are characterized by simple technologies, sparse possessions, and small egalitarian bands.

The outstanding exception, to date, is his performance in Judd Apatow's "Funny People," which showed what happens when he works with directors who tap into the depth of his talent.

But aside from a shuffling of senior staff and some programme staff, none that I'm aware of – with the outstanding exception of Everychild (an INGO dealing with children's rights) – has gone so far as to ask the question "do we have a right to exist?" Prof Robert Chambers in his book, Development: Whose Reality Counts?

Although there are some outstanding exceptions, most young mammals are completely helpless at birth.

(The outstanding exceptions are the creolized dialects, which are distinguished by far-reaching structural peculiarities).

The outstanding exceptions are the egg-laying monotremes of Australia, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus) and the echidnas (spiny anteaters).

If the times she lived in automatically set her photography within an epic frame, her individual images, with some outstanding exceptions, tend to be undramatic, unelevated, sometimes even awkwardly grounded, with people grouped, face front, in cramped, flashbulb-bleached spaces.

With a few outstanding exceptions, such as Kublai himself (whom the Mongols always called Setsen Khan, the "Wise Khan"), the rulers of the Mongols seem to have looked on power as a personal, or at most a family, possession to be exploited for immediate gain.