Sentence examples for understood except for from inspiring English sources

If you read his Westminster speech, one of the greatest speeches a Cold War president ever gave, the Westminster speech is prescient about the Soviet system, it is incisive, it gets it almost exactly right, and I am talking about the Soviet system that I saw and understood, except for one thing - the military.

The role of each enzyme encoded by these five genes is fairly well understood, except for Rv3802c.

Since CEP68 gene (also referred to as KIAA0582) in the chromosome 2p14 has been recently discovered, its functions have not been fully understood, except for its role in centrosome cohesion and epidermal growth factor (EGF) signaling [38], [39].

The role of each enzyme encoded by these five genes is fairly well understood, except for the product of Rv3802c, though these five genes do not account for all the necessary steps in the pathway [7].

In asthma, the possible causes of death are still not well understood, except for the recognized reduced contribution of severe asthma exacerbations.

A relative in Armenia I didn't know I had tracked me down at my hotel and started yelling at me in Armenian, which I didn't understand except for every other word, which was my father's, my uncle's or my grandfather's names.

And as if that wasn't enough disrespect on the day Thatcher was laid to rest, a, ahem … concerned reader also nudged Monkey towards the Sun's Official Page 3 twitter feed (not something we normally spend our time perusing, you understand, except for essential research purposes).

In fact, one could argue that we understand everything except for the physical world of falling objects by analogy.

I would say that the movie understands this, except for the gnashing satisfaction on the characters' faces at the end, after the teacher has pounded his students into mush.

We have a very multi-racial coalition, so we still have to deal with a lot of groups who might not necessarily understand immigration except for the sound bites they see on TV.

My students thought they understood these writers, except for Faulkner.