Sentence examples for surely except from inspiring English sources

A worthy goal, surely, except that the region's authorities have a habit of defining as crimes the kind of things their critics would deem legitimate dissent.Despite the flourishing of alternative media, such as satellite television and internet blogs, that challenge once-impregnable state monopolies on the flow of news, governments keep finding new ways to suppress contrary views.

The idea is surely mythical – except in the mundane sense of where we were born and grew up.

Surely no one except the companies making the profits would oppose more disclosure and clearer information.

Over 50 men are working here, in a pattern of work which is gives no indication of the century in which it is taking place – except surely not this one nor the last, for there is no machinery in use of any sort except the wheelbarrows.

Agatha Christie's Poirot: Curtain, Poirot's Last Case Bessie Grace Of Monaco Hello Ladies: The Movie (Stephen Marchant) Killing Jesus Nightingale (David Oyelowo) Poirot has his fans, but there's a lot to admire in David Oyelowo's single-handed performance (basically this one is surely the "anything except Grace Of Monaco" award, isn't it?).

When I wrote How to Be a Domestic Goddess, many felt I was saying that women's place was in the kitchen, but the ironic pictures on the endpapers surely undermined that, except for those people who consciously chose to misread my intent.

Except, surely, his wife?

Almost everyone loses in this surely desolate future, except the Donald himself, and SNL.

Surely, though, we can except that ravishing, patrician blonde, the one who seems sheathed in ice.

There was surely no escaping it, except you did hear stories.

What I felt that day surely doesn't matter, except for this.