What is "exceptions"

Usage examples of "exceptions".

There are no exceptions, because the number of wholes will always be less than the number of parts contained in them.

By the time he had been lectured on the exceptions to that particular rule, he had forgotten his question.

Every tune I believe I understand one combination or facet, exceptions to that comprehension appear to confound me.

The Beetles made their plans exceedingly clear but they might be exceptions to the rule of peaceful exploration.

A self-study complex included not only the schoolroom for transient minors but small rehearsal rooms where a broad range of musical instruments could be rented -- with the notable exceptions of a portable Optherian organ -- a miniature theater, and several large workshops for handicrafters.

There were incidents of spitefulness with each new Drop but gradually, over the past months, that had altered - with very few exceptions - when most Botany settlers learned just how much they owed to Zainal's presence on the planet.

Harpers tended to be pacifists - with a few notable exceptions: Shonagar had been champion wrestler in his home hold and at the Harper Hall, besting the holder of the mediumweight title at Fort Hold on three occasions.

And nowadays, Lessa smiled thinly, no one not even dragonmen, with the notable exceptions of F'lar and his wingmen, bothered to drill with firestone, much less uproot grass near houses.

The exceptions were the windows of the hall from which the voices had come.

Of course, there are naturally some few exceptions," he added smugly, rather pleased that he was one of them.

No one would fault him, but the Weyrleader made no exceptions for himself, bar the very few occasions each Turn when Mnementh had taken a score or strained a wing.

All exceptions of rank or sex, of age or infirmity, were forgotten in the common transport.

Each reign (the exceptions are rare) has been marked by the rapid elevation of a new family, enriched by the childish pontiff at the expense of the church and country.

In a series of articulate and extremely well-researched books, Campbell has done more than any other person, with the possible exceptions of Mircea Eliade and Carl Jung, to champion the position that mythological thought is the primary carrier of spiritual and mystical awareness.

There were, of course, many happy exceptions who saw, with Eckhart, Bruno, Cusanus, the way of the coincidentia oppositorumsaw that the way up and the way down are to be united in every moment of perception.