The modest market reforms Castro has grudgingly allowed of late are the exception that proves the rule.
Moreover, much like the October 1987 crash, last week's global tumble was the exception that proves the rule.
Or is it the exception that proves the rule: The Internet isn't the place to sell most retail products?
Buffett, Peris argues in his book, is the exception that proves the rule.
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The worry is that Indonesia will be the exception that proves the rule.
As anathema as bureaucracy is to me maybe in the case of airlines it is the exception that proves the rule.
Sanofi's new entrant, Acomplia, which is expected to be submitted to the FDA this year, is the exception that proves the rule.
It's the exception that proves the rule: Dandyism is not effeminacy.
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The exception that proves the rule: Used Guys, a high-concept comedy that was to star Ben Stiller and Jim Carey, which Fox pulled earlier this year.
In the automobile industry, probably the most globally inter-connected, the Nissan-Renault tie-up under Carlos Ghosn that seems to be working may be the exception that proves the rule.
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Now comes the exception that proves the rule: The leadoff track from Phish's first studio album after a four-year breakup is the strongest, most pop-friendly song the band has ever written.
Unfortunately, they are the exception that proves the terrible rule of insane payment incentives.
"Overambitious Indian infrastructure project" may be a redundant term, but this is Delhi Metro, the country's gem that proves an exception to the rule.
The big question now, then, is whether 2005 is going to follow the rule, or be another exception that proves it.
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