Sentence examples for outstanding exceptions from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

Part of the problem is that there are not enough female graduates in maths, physics and programming, although there are outstanding exceptions, such as Rhianna Pratchett, who has led the writing on games such as Tomb Raider and Mirror's Edge, and Sophia George, who spent 2014 as the Victoria and Albert museum's first ever resident game designer.

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.

Alter cites Fox as the outstanding exception to the general trend of a blandly readable English Bible — an extremist after Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, whose German Bible "flaunts Hebrew etymologies, preserves nearly all repetitions of Hebrew terms, and invents German words".

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.