Sentence examples for proved the exception to from inspiring English sources

Scotland proved the exception to this trend: people there voted to remain in the European Union regardless of their education and income.

But Mitsuko Uchida's outstanding recital proved the exception to the rule, and showed not only that the three works can be successfully programmed together, but what an extraordinary experience it then becomes.

Dr Sigman may well be right but rather intriguingly Völler proved the exception to the rule by refusing to retaliate in any way, aggressively or otherwise, bearing his multiple punishments and degradations at the hands of both referee and opponent with a stoicism that bordered on the truly heroic.

Ms. Lindsey wasn't the star of this bill — that was Craig Morgan, whose fifth album, "That's Why" (BNA), was released last month — but she proved the exception to the rule that songwriters toil in the background only to make singers look great.

Coincidentally Swann then found dramatic turn and bounce from round the wicket to surprise Jayawardene, the ball brushing the glove and squeezing through Anderson's fingers, but it proved the exception to the rule and it was to be an unproductive day for England's first-choice spinners.

Despite its complexity, the scene proved the exception to the "ample rehearsal" rule.

But he may prove the exception to the rule.

Traditionally, farmers don't make good gardeners, but Anna's pretty garden proves the exception to the rule.

Richard Hannon hopes Shifting Power can prove the exception to the fairly ordinary rule of recent winners of the CSP European Free Handicap.

Sam Allardyce does not really do regrets but the presence of one particularly headline-grabbing passage in his recent autobiography threatens to prove the exception to this rule.

People just find different modes of expression," she'll say, and then look at you as if you might yet prove the exception to that rule.