According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft might consider making that exception a rule: some of the firm's part suppliers say that the company is experimenting with a smartphone design of its very own.
The hoary slogan 'Not sold in stores' has become the exception to the rule.
To simplify matters greatly, soft dollaring is a legally prescribed exception to this rule.
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The only exception to this rule is if you were previously in an income-contingent payment program.
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But this sort of overt pressure is almost certainly an exception to the rule.
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The one exception to the rule of relative inexperience is Helmut Kohl, the long-serving German chancellor.
Someday soon Herbert, the retired airline pilot, may no longer be such an exception to the rule.
The one exception to this rule, Austin, also benefits from being located in solvent, generally low-tax Texas.
Microsoft is an exception to a rule that says companies get large, acquire competition and then stagnate.
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An exception to this rule exists when there is an Order to Show Cause with temporary restraints.
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FEMA, when it's adequately funded and staffed by competent professionals, is not an exception but the rule.
For-profit universities have proved to be the exception to the rule: most are in good financial health.
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In many ways, religion itself is an exception to the rule that chapter-based voluntary associations are in decline.
Of course, many 401(k) plans offer crappy investment options, so this is probably more the exception than the rule.
Mr. Shuvalov "is more the exception than the rule, " said Alexander Voloshin, his former boss at the Kremlin administration.
More people are uninsured in 2010 than in 2009, but the 18-24 group is the exception to this rule.
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Vanguard happens to be the only exception to that rule--we can talk about that a little later on, maybe.
The exception to this rule is if you held the job in question for a significant period of time.
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Britain is an exception to the rule, and its NHS is not exactly the envy of the developed world.
That's a question every parent should ask, for today a missing school nurse isn't the exception but the rule.
And regionwide, Hong Kong's plateauing demand is more the exception than the rule.
If Google's glasses are to prove an exception to that rule, the firm will have to meet several challenges.
Virginia receives one out of ten dollars that the Pentagon spends, and Fairfax County is no exception to that rule.
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The exception to this rule, of course, is the United States, which alone accounts for over 40% of global sales.
Early on, it became clear that being the exception to the rule had at least some ancillary benefits for the publisher.
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As I've said repeatedly: those who came off Gold first recovered first - but the exception proves the rule of why.
Wal-Mart remains the exception to the rule in the crumbling retail sector thanks to its global footprint and deeply discounted prices.
There are stages when the ground slowly crumbles out from beneath your (missing) feet, but these are the exception to the rule.
Denver was the exception to the rule where its boost came from Southwest ramping up its service there between 2008 and 2009.
Mosesmann contends that the 62%-65% gross margins the company has enjoyed over the last three years were the exception to the rule.
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