• For a period of 20 years the existing Turkish customs tariff shall remain in force throughout the whole of the blue and red areas, as well as in areas (a) and (b), and no increase in the rates of duty or conversions from ad valorem to specific rates shall be made except by agreement between the two powers.

    BBC: Map detailing the Sykes-Picot agreement

  • All awards would be given out by Swedish institutes except the peace prize, which would be awarded by the Norwegian Parliament.

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  • No cash or other substitution may be made, except by the Sponsor, who reserves the right to substitute a prize with another prize of equal or greater value if the prize is not available for any reason as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion.

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  • "We have pictures that were never meant to be seen by anyone except Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti for their own albums and memories, " says Kinmonth.

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  • 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.

    FORBES: Yes, Debt Default Is Coming To America. Here's Why.

  • Help in private family law cases which is mostly provided by private solicitors' firms will also be affected by the changes, except where domestic abuse is alleged.

    BBC: Legal aid cuts hit 60 advice jobs and 'vulnerable' in Wales

  • The thing is, the portal only opens once and then has to be rebuilt by killing all theKeywardens again except for the last one who drops the plans for the Infernal Machine which opens the portal.

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  • But now there is a whole new army of brokers that will be fiduciaries too, except unlike an objective fee-only adviser these brokers will still be tempted by the bribe of a big fat commission.

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  • The remaining actions are planned to be complete by 1 March this year, except for three which have a completion date of 1 September.

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  • Two different models will be offered by the chip giant, identical except that one will be Thunderbolt equipped and the other will sport an Ethernet port for connectivity.

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  • It is obvious to everyone except Javert that no genuine good would be served by depriving Montreuil-sur-Mer of its highly capable mayor and chief industrialist.

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  • The new iPad may not be a huge leap forward, by many accounts, except perhaps for the screen.

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  • The banks make several billion dollars' worth of profits off managing these student loans, which would be okay except for the fact that these loans are guaranteed by the federal government.

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  • This would all be academic of course, except that internationally Obama is being confronted by terrorists.

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  • There will no public transport, so bus lanes, except for those on motorway hard shoulders, can be used by motorists to keep traffic moving on Wednesday.

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  • It protects documents that would normally be protected by the common-law attorney-client privilege, except in corporate tax-shelter cases and criminal cases.

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  • You'll still find the jobs you're looking for if you search by responsibility instead of title, except you'll be working backward.

    CNN: Using the right keywords in your job search

  • Once a golfer starts a round, the statistics by which all comparisons are made will be within fixed parameters except for the outcome, because each round of the tournament, each hole on the course, follows a predictable layout, so to speak.

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  • Winners will be required to sign affidavits of eligibility, liability releases and, except where prohibited by law, use of name and likeness releases.

    CNN: Inside the Envelope

  • "Under most scenarios -- except the most dire -- significant strides in reducing extreme poverty will be achieved by 2030, " the report notes.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • However, all of these, except perhaps the last, are also likely to be linked to disease and, by careful statistical analysis, Mr Eppig and his colleagues show that all of them either disappear or are reduced to a small effect when the consequences of disease are taken into account.

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  • Except in a few well-thought-out cases, money managers should be required by their companies to invest in their own products.

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  • That revenue loss would be overwhelmed by a budget policy of returning every federal line item to 2007 levels, except Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, debt interest, and federal employee retirement benefits.

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  • Google Books lists nearly three million free e-books, which can be browsed by clicking on its Free Classics shelf and can be read on most devices, except for Kindles that aren't the KindleFire.

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  • That should allow for the inclusion of outlandish readings without distorting the result. (Except where there seems to be straightforward confusion between Celsius and Fahrenheit, which is corrected.) By avoiding traditional procedures that require long, continuous data segments, the Berkeley Earth methodology can also accommodate unusually short sequences: for example, those provided by temporary weather stations.

    ECONOMIST: Climate change

  • But he said there was a risk that British banks could be affected by deals done by the remaining 26 EU member states which cannot be blocked as unanimity is no longer required except in the case of taxation.

    BBC: Nick Clegg warns European veto 'bad for Britain'

  • The Alliance proposal that all new-build schools should be integrated, except in exceptional cases, doesn't quite amount to the "End Catholic Education" headlined by the Irish News.

    BBC: Alliance shared future plans ambitious

  • Except that if Bankia has really been strengthened by this financial engineering, then there would have to be a very significant transfer of risk to the European Central Bank - and therefore, by implication, to its shareholders, or the other central banks and taxpayers of the eurozone.

    BBC: No magic potion for eurozone banks

  • Then there's the icing on the cake, except that it's so important as to be part of the cake -- brilliant segments of animation, by Todd McFarlane, in which Francis's most perfervid fantasies come to life.

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  • Even if the Sudan Peace Act were to be adopted unchanged by the Senate, however, they could still do business in every rogue state on the planet except for Sudan, although informed investors may not respond to such offerings once it is clear that the ultimate beneficiaries of the dollars thus generated could include countries like Iran, Iraq and Libya.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

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