It was defined that passive thermal control concepts are widely used, excepting autonomous temperature regulation for sensitive components such as batteries, high-precision optics, and some types of sensors.
Earplugs, nose plugs, and lip plugs were widely used, except by the archipelagic people.
Michael's self-deprecating sense of humour made him widely loved – except, perhaps by people in the food industry.
The name lutetium became widely accepted except in Germany, where it was commonly called cassiopeium until the 1950s.
Their influence is widely underestimated – except by those who are set on capturing the party after its expected general election defeat.
It is now widely understood, except by those who live inside such models, that a climate response based primarily on a carbon price will deliver only marginal change.
The trade — Phoenix sends Shaq to the Cavs for Ben Wallace, Sasha Pavlovic, a draft pick and $500,000 — is being widely reported except by Shaq, who is being oddly quiet on his Twitter page, despite normally tweeting about almost everything.
The Wi-Fi Alliance – which standardised IEEE 802.11 as Wi-Fi – has done a similar job with wireless screens, and its Miracast system is widely supported (except by Apple).
Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy," completed in 1767, has been called an unfilmable book, but what may not be widely known, except among suffering English majors, is that "Tristram Shandy" is also an unreadable book.
Aquatic oligochaete species are widespread in suitable environments; terrestrial forms are less widely distributed, except for the earthworm and others that have been transported to new habitats, generally inadvertently, by humans.
