Sentence examples for strange exception from inspiring English sources

There is one strange exception.

But there has been a strange exception: lobster.

"I do not understand," Justice Scalia wrote, "why we would make such a strange exception to the treasured right of trial by jury".

With the strange exception of Argentina, the middle classes of Latin America are bulwarks of economic orthodoxy and fiscal rectitude.New York University's Mr Easterly has found that the larger a country's middle class, the lower its indicators of every sort of instability, be it revolutions and coups, outbreaks of civil war, constitutional changes or suppression of civil rights.

But now he thinks he can silence these critics by just taxing them out of existence.He wants parliament (which has a pro-Meciar majority) to rush through a four-fold increase in the value-added tax on newspapers and magazines, but with one strange exception: publications in which less than a tenth of pages carry advertisements will be exempt.

The flight attendants are left to enforce the arcane rules of the Federal Aviation Administration, which mandate that people can't use electronic devices — with the strange exception of electric razors and audio recorders — from the moment a plane leaves the gate until it reaches 10,000 feet.

That said, check this carefully as some policies have strange exceptions – we recently found a policy covering cricket but not football.

This position, in turn, is in contravention of his party's platform, and his running mate's personal position -- except for that time his running mate wrote a bill that carved out certain, strange exceptions to the abortion ban, some of which were walked back, which Paul Ryan co-sponsored with Todd Akin, who now supports "personhood".

Is North Dakota some strange "red" exception to a "blue is better" rule, crying out for a quirky, fracking-centric explanation?

Am I some strange, handsome exception?

I imagined him sorting people like I sorted grasses: there were the expected ones, fescue, brome, and then there were strange, weedy exceptions to lay aside for someone else to classify.