This conviction is crucial to understanding why opinion on abortion has been a persistent exception to the liberalizing cultural trends that have brought us gay marriage, medical marijuana and now women in combat.
The persistent exception is bad, bitter, or unpleasant taste, which affected 19 36% of subjects in randomized, placebo-controlled studies [35] and 22%–27% of subjects in a pooled analysis [17].
Our data revealed a complex and intermittent pattern of illness over time, where persistent CFS was the exception and not the rule.
Correlations of JADAS-71 and JADAS3-71 windividualdual surrogates for disease activity are presented in table 5. Correlation of JADAS-71 with AJC was high, with the exception of persistent oligoarticular JIA (r=0.47).
Exclusion criteria were: upper respiratory airway disease and acute upper respiratory airway infection, congenital heart disease with exception of persistent ductus arteriosus, congenital diaphragmatic hernia and other pulmonary malformations, central nervous respiratory dysregulation.
Wheezing phenotypes, which are based on the onset of and time variation in wheezing symptoms, were important in the characterization of the natural history and clinical evolution of symptoms but did not vary across socioeconomic groups, with the exception of persistent wheeze.
According to Syverson (2011: 326), different studies 'documented, virtually without exception, enormous and persistent measured productivity differences across producers, even within narrowly defined industries'.
Further, with the exception of the persistent organochlorine chemicals (e.g., PCBs, chlordane, DDT), which are no longer in use, biological measures of many chemicals may reflect only recent exposures due to short half-lives in the body.
With the exception of diabetes these persistent frequent attenders differ less as far as the prevalence of chronic somatic diseases is concerned.
These men happened to be among the most famous basketball coaches in the world and the most persistent recruiters, but Battier granted no exceptions.
And crucial to the vision has been the idea of Britain (or England, for the confusion is persistent) as a haven of freedom, an exception to the pattern of continental despotism.
