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How to use the word Except in a Sentence?

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Only a skillful and experienced person can transform his inner fear into alertness and attentiveness. Always be clearly prepared for future challenges. Carefully, thinking slowly, learn to be prepared for anything, because no one is responsible for your actions except yourself.

Narsha Bulgakbaev

added by nbulgakbaev
3 months ago

There is no hopelessness, there is ignorance. There are no unsolvable problems in this life, there are only people who do not know how to fight and endure, and look for a way out. There is no way out except from the grave. But “No, I have a special case,” “God forbid, it’s easy to say.”

Narsha Bulgakbaev

added by nbulgakbaev
3 months ago

Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.

J. P. Morgan

added by Normando
4 months ago

Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.

Henry Grady Weaver

added by Normando
4 months ago

My own view ? I wish there were n’t abortions except for rape, incest and life of the mother, but do I think we should impose that ban at that level here now ? I do n’t, because that is not the national consensus, voters are weighing in in state after state. Let’s let them do that unless there is a really broad consensus.

Josh Hawley

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Nothing really happened on the trip, except I noticed she was perfect : cheerful, self reliant, capable, fearless.

Bo Knapp Both Bo

Found on CNN
11 months ago

I realize that you are replaceable to everybody except yourself. And I’m like, I cannot do this to myself anymore. I can’t ask my body to go wrestle a match just to make these people happy.

Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
11 months ago

I can’t do anything except plead with the Congress to act reasonably, i have done the full extent of my executive authority – to do on my own, anything about guns … The Congress has to act. The majority of the American people think having assault weapons is bizarre, it’s a crazy idea. They’re against that. And so I think the Congress could be passing an assault weapon ban.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
12 months ago

As property owners, my clients hold a water right, this is the same as all the farmers along the river, who hold land that has been irrigated, in most cases for over 100 years. That water right is valuable property, which can be transferred. It’s like buying and selling land, except that, Colorado River water can only be transferred if it goes through an extensive review process at both the State and Federal Levels. Any proposed transfer is independently analyzed.

Grady Gammage

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s perhaps a stigma associated with this word (3D printing), usually with printing you think of an industrial process. (But) it’s important to realize that this is no different than cooking normally except instead of chopping the ingredients up and everything like that, the machine is basically just assembling it in paste form.

Jonathan Blutinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We do n’t have further details to share, except that the flight arrived on time and as scheduled.

Dallas Police Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They could very easily have inaccurate information and alongside accurate information, we have no more ability to discriminate between those than they did at the time, except that we now know from modern science what species actually (exist) and what’s credible or not credible.

John McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nobody’s telling us nothing except another delay and another delay.

Joshua Pettit

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to.

Benjamin A. Rooge

added by Normando
1 year ago

I don’t believe that Beijing can offer guarantees to Tehran except a pledge to continue importing a minimum amount of crude regardless of the global market situation and China’s domestic demand.

Jacopo Scita

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Except for patients with government insurance, few consumers are immune from negative financial impacts caused by hospitals’ high markups, we as consumers are paying for this when hospitals charge 10 times what they should.

Ge Bai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When our team determined the age of the Nyayanga evidence, the perpetrator of the tools became a ‘whodunnit’ in my mind. There are several possibilities, and except for fossilized hand bones wrapped around a stone tool, the originator of the early Oldowan may be an unknown for a long time.

Rick Potts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can go around and around in circles about trying to talk about and defining socialism, but at its core I was intrigued by an op-ed that I saw not too long ago by a Democrat from Cuba commenting on one of our colleagues, an avowed socialist, and essentially pointing out the extent to which democratic socialism is a lot like the system my family fled except its proponents promised to be nicer when seizing your business. That’s the truth, we can talk about these terms as if they don't matter, but they do. They do matter. They're actually at the core of who we are.

Chip Roy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I am not afraid of anyone except the Almighty. Because it is important for me that by my action I can set an example for my compatriots, fellow security officials, enforcers.

Maria Dmitrieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are no outstanding concerns, except maybe health for those born in the summer and autumn. They could easily feel stressed.

Thierry Chow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not an unusually high influenza season. It’s sort of falling in with the mid- to higher range, but it’s within the limits of what we normally expect to see during a regular flu season, unfortunately, so basically, this is looking like a typical flu season, except in terms of the timing. It was just a little bit earlier than normal.

Lynnette Brammer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My reaction is that it's not all that big a surprise, except of course when it comes to Southwest. That mess represents the biggest airline computer meltdown I've ever seen. This issue sits solidly with Southwest. Not sure the Secretary can really do much to help at thispoint.

Rob Mark

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick, it has no socially redeeming value… Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.

Cesare Beccaria

added by Normando
1 year ago

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