Sentence examples for rules except in from inspiring English sources

There is a rulebook, but the codicil to all rules, "except in rare instances," gives officials latitude to change technical specifications and racing regulations constantly.

With a change in emphasis, chiefly expressed in the episcopal use of the cope, Episcopalian usage in the first half of the 20th century differed little from Catholic rules except in Anglo-Catholicism, in which deliberate archaism imposed an adhesion to Baroque (17th to early 18th century) models, themselves superseded within Roman Catholicism.

According to the theory, a person's moral decisions should be based on a set of 'intuitive' moral rules, except in certain rare situations where it is more appropriate to engage in a 'critical' level of moral reasoning.

To that end, I was going to buy some zucchini, but by the time we got to the market in the early afternoon there was almost none left, and to buy what there was we'd have had to retrace our steps, which is against the rules except in the direst emergencies.

Pressures from the business community and builders caused the city to relax those rules, except in the new downtown which was urgently readying itself for the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915, where the city's boosters hoped to eradicate the last pungent odors of the calamity.

Squabbling coalition governments are the rule except in Slovenia, which is also the only country with decent roads.

Formally, he sticks to the 14‑line rule (except in the book's centrepiece, a prose story about a misconceived venture into translation), but not much else.

Symptoms are usually of short duration, ≈1 week, and complete recovery is the rule, except in some cases of chikungunya infection, in which arthralgia may last for months (14, 15 ).

That wouldn't necessarily be a problem for a social set of people holding all the power and influence over an incumbent web of rules, except that in this case, the publishing industry's system *evolved around the externalities of paper.*.*

Today, those kind of Halloween events are common at amusement parks, but there was no precedent for Knott's Halloween Haunt; there weren't many rules, except 1) always travel in pairs, because as Kelly put it, "the crowds can gang up on you" (true then, truer now) and 2) spook the visitors however you can without physically touching them.

Now, I'd do anything to have a voice in those rules, except what it would take, which is running for the board and showing up at the meetings.