Belgium, Lithuania, Spain, Cyprus, Slovenia and the Netherlands all provide exceptions of different kinds for the hospitality sector.
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Since then, annual portfolio growth increased sharply with the notable exceptions of the two recessions of the current decade.
Its operations stretch across all links in the natural gas value chain, with the exceptions of exploration and production.
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With the exceptions of South Africa and Indonesia there are no enticing charts radiating animal spirits, fortitude or even stolidity.
With the exceptions of Germany and China, every big national beer market is now dominated by at most three domestic brewers.
Historically, a prominent position grew out of a degree of public trust (with the exceptions of, say, warlords or machine bosses).
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With the exceptions of the iPhone and the Galaxy S series, a successful handset today might sell 20 million units.
In other words, with the notable exceptions of Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, the industry is pushing Linux for use in corporate computing.
Nor, with the partial exceptions of ConSors, of Germany, and Bipop, from Italy, have European brokers had much success outside their homelands.
The result is that, with the exceptions of the banks that went broke, most of them are in better shape than they were in.
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"With the notable exceptions of Sweden and Denmark, we see no political will to open doors wider to Iraqi refugees today, " it said of EU nations.
With the possible exceptions of Cano and Sabathia, not only is no Yankee irreplaceable, none even matter that much, unless they go missing for months at a time.
Six months later, we could find very little sign of Flash-developed content in Top Grossing of App Store and Android, except for some rare exceptions of non-demanding media content.
Several bankruptcies are possible with the exceptions of Consol Energy and Peabody Energy who are leveraged, but carry sufficient wherewithal to get through at least four years of famine.
The collection is visibly approachable -with a few exceptions of effectively exaggerated styles designed to the product mix for the more adventurous consumers who prefer a character of shaded illusion.
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Scotland saw the slowest rate of job creation of all surveyed UK regions, with the exceptions of Northern Ireland, Wales and Yorkshire and Humber, where headcounts either decreased or were unchanged.
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This is no knock on anyone in public education, and there are exceptions of course, but overall, kids attending independent schools get much better college counseling than their peers in public schools.
The media, consumer advocates and regulators have had it in for prepaid, believing that the exceptions of Kardashian cards are the norm and that prepaid is basically a sham for low-income users.
On the whole, they are better neighbors (we can probably all think of exceptions of course) since they tend to quiet the barking dog or turn down the loud music after 10 PM.
Yet, with the notable exceptions of the New York Times article to which I linked earlier and this Reuters article, the participants in the march on Sunday were portrayed as a mute herd.
It says that use of the independent sector represents 0.4% of the total acute spend (acute covers all spending on hospital services with the exceptions of maternity, care of the elderly, mental health and learning disability).
Between 1990 and 2010, according to data from the IEA, the share of renewables in total energy consumption has fallen slightly or remained stagnant in virtually all African countries, with the interesting exceptions of Mozambique, Kenya, and Angola.
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Nowhere in the editorial does it mention that U.S. manufacturing has been breaking records year after year during the decade (with the exceptions of recession years 2002 and 2009) with respect to output, value-added, revenues, profits, return on investment, and exports.
It is deplorable that so few of our elected officials, with the notable exceptions of Rep. Kevin Brady, prime sponsor of the Sound Dollar Act, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who successfully championed a national monetary commission as part of the 2012 GOP platform, have focused on moving monetary policy to center stage.
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With a handful of exceptions, people outside of academia seem to be strikingly oblivious to this simple fact, even people who should be allies.
In a progressive tax system, that also means that the amount of tax payable will be smaller since tax rates tend to decrease with taxable income (with some exceptions, of course).
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So, like any kludged system, the maintenance of the exceptions degrades the performance of the whole, crazy, Rube Goldberg machine.
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