Intellectuals have long dismissed TV, except as a lens through which to study the masses.
He had, and has, no interest in policies except as a means to office.
Bricks-and-mortar bookstores look increasingly out-dated, except as venues for leisurely coffee and book signings.
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His dismissal of the case was abrupt, and inexplicable except as a form of judicial advocacy.
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"I am not interested in causation except as it speaks to action, " he is quoted as saying.
The sovereign had all rights and no one had any except as where ceded by him or her.
We own nothing, except as the university the right to alter the curricula.
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Capitalism has no exclusive biblical imprimatur, but free markets are compatible with Scripture except as corrupted by sinful men.
The truth is that they should be avoided except as a last resort.
With his studied Baltimore accent, he's soft and shapeless, his casting a stunt with no reason for being except as a stunt.
Many corporate governance campaigners contend that no CEO should have any involvement whatsoever, except as an adversarial bargainer, in determining his compensation.
Today, he is forgotten, except as the namesake of a New York bridge that arcs over the narrows he sailed through in 1524.
Except as a monument to the hypocrisy of respectable French society, even his odd relationship with Nini, his long-time mistress and finally wife, remains enigmatic.
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Oddly, the rhetoric matched that of Saddam Hussein, a leader for whom Mr Qaradawi, and most other Muslim scholars, have little sympathy except as a symbol.
Employers don't want to know much about your life except as it relates to what you've done professionally and what you're likely able to do for them.
I'm angry that nobody talks about how immigration and the rise of Latinos effects black folks, except as a kind of inconvenience that has to be adapted to new circumstances.
Atlantic Mackerel: Very popular in Britain and Scandinavia, but not here except as sushi, but they should be: very high in Omega 3 and very low in mercury.
Rather than lightly hinting at a dollar fix, Paulson should recognize that the dollar is utterly insignificant except as a measuring stick that facilitates the wealth-enhancing exchange of goods.
The seigneur's right of veto was strictly limited and the seneschal had no right to speak at meetings of the Chief Pleas except as necessary to discharge his duties.
Now, in theory that sounds like a pretty good idea, except as you might imagine if the insurance companies are involved that means they've got to make a profit.
With economic agents supposedly possessing perfect information about all possible contingencies, systemic crises could never happen except as a result of accidents and surprises beyond the reach of economic theory.
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The panic surrounding guns in America makes no sense except as yet another instance of the broader panic surrounding our fears of premature death, of tragedy, and of the senselessness of suffering.
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When I was twenty years old, I became a kind of apprentice to a man named Andrew Lytle, whom pretty much no one apart from his negligibly less ancient sister, Polly, had addressed except as Mister Lytle in at least a decade.
The whole cumbersome process of getting and spending the currency invented in 2009 by a mysterious Japanese (or possibly American) man called Satashi Nakamoto convinced me of one thing - that Bitcoin was not yet much use except as a means of speculation.
With respect to the allegation of churning, because we found no evidence of excessive trading and because (except as noted above) the accounts were fee based and thus not generating commissions compensation to Respondent Abadiotakis, there was neither indication of nor basis for an allegation of churning.
But while talk of living within our means may play well in the home districts of Republican congressmen, the cuts in social programs that additional austerity would require remain unpopular nationwide and highly unlikely to be accepted by Democrats except as part of the much discussed but increasingly remote grand bargain.
Titania could not conceive of the way they were made, except as distillations of sadness and heartbreak and despair, since that was how she made her own poisons, shaking drops of terror out of a wren captured in her fist, or sucking with a silver straw at the tears of a dog.
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