Sentence examples for program except for from inspiring English sources

Building a computer that can run every program is infinitely simpler than building a computer that can run any program except for naughty ones.

The governor also proposed a one-year freeze on payments from the STAR property tax relief program, except for the elderly.

The best mares stay and enter the breeding program; except for nine days a year, the 30 mares on the ranch are always pregnant.

The liberal Catholic reformers could sympathize with Luther's program except for its identification of the papacy with Antichrist, which recalled the accusations of medieval heretics.

From the armed forces to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, every program except for most safety-net benefits is about to be cut by an arbitrary process known as the sequester, instigated by the 2011 Republican rampage against government.

The United States, which has shipped $147 million worth of American food to Malawi as emergency relief since 2002, but only $53 million to help Malawi grow its own food, has not provided any financial support for the subsidy program, except for helping pay for the evaluation of it.

"We knew we were struggling against Hendrick's programs, except for the 17 car with Matt Kenseth, Osbornee said.

The budget essentially holds spending at last year's levels or lower in most state programs, except for a $382 million increase in school aid.

C.E.O.'s program looks a lot like other transitional jobs programs — except for one thing:   At C.E.O., the clients are not dropped into a regular workplace, but organized into work crews.

The administration's request for a budget amendment would leave all the 2003 Crusader money with the Army, and all in artillery and precision-strike programs except for $28.6 million to complete development of a new engine for the existing Abrams tank.

Which is to say: "Make me a general-purpose computer that runs all programs except for one program that freaks me out".