Sentence examples for progress except for from inspiring English sources

Clearly, for Ibn Khaldūn, history was an endless cycle of flowering and decay, with no evolution or progress except for that from primitive to civilized society.

And, in fact, you could see the thousand-page bill they've produced as, in the words of the Times, "real progress," except for one thing: their complicated, jury-rigged plan is only necessary because of the continued refusal by Congress to embrace the obvious, economically sensible solution to highway funding, namely raising the gas tax.

Lennon's music, for the most part, was an autobiography in progress: except for "Some Time in New York City," his album of mostly ephemeral, quickly dashed-off political broadsides — it was no coincidence that he packaged it to look like a newspaper — his subject was usually himself.

That's progress, except for countries like Germany, whose leaders already can.

Arbitration drug on month after month with little progress except for new efforts at organizing the banking industry.

Although the LRs were estimated relatively low (P>0.05), the other 8 characters ranging from 1.06 to 1.69 also suggested accelerating evolution as time progress, except for two characters, length of 2HT (δ = 0.63) and length of cauda (δ = 0.85), nominally indicating temporally early change of a trait.

Overall, each site showed a quadratic decline in SPAD values as the growing season progressed, except for Carbondale, where SPAD remained high throughout the season (Fig. 6).

Sometimes he writes like a poet: We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

His work is promising considering the low cost of keeping the insects happy, and he is progressing well, except for one run in with the law.

If you look at what futurists were predicting 40 or 45 years ago, they somewhat underpredicted progress in IT (except for the artificial intelligence thing), but wildly overpredicted progress in dealing with the material world.

Of course, none of the app store's progress would matter except for the fact that Amazon's Echo is becoming one of the more popular smart home devices on the market today.