9 sentences with 'exception'
Example sentences and phrases with the word exception and other words derived from it.
• « With the exception of my daily walk and visit to the urologist, I had not left the house since my return from Johns Hopkins. »
• « The so-called complete protein foods are all of animal origin. There is only one exception: soya beans. »
• « An important exception to the absence of legal rights for women was that Greek women could initiate divorce, although divorce would only be recognised after a legal process demonstrated that the husband's behaviour was truly reprehensible to Greek sensibilities, and it was a rare case in any case: there is only one known instance in classical Athens of a woman who attempted to initiate divorce. »
• « What we do know for certain is that almost no written works survive by female authors - the notable exception being Sappho, a poet of the Archaic period whose works suggest that lesbianism may have been relatively common (her home, the Greek island of Lesbos, is the root of the word lesbian). »
• « In the midst of this ongoing struggle, the Romans arrived at the basis of Roman law, the system of law that, through various iterations, would become the basis of most systems of law still in use in Europe today (Britain being a notable exception). »
• « Almost without exception, elites strove to actively encourage trade by building and guarding trade routes and founding caravanserais, fortified way stations for merchant travellers. »
• « A handful of women writers did emerge in the course of the Middle Ages, but since there were almost no opportunities for women to learn Latin (with the major exception of the education given to some nuns), they were excluded from the world of medieval scholarship. »
• « As in all pre-modern history, the pace of technological change during the Renaissance period was glacially slow by contemporary standards. However, there was one momentous exception: the proliferation of movable type printing. »