Separately and collectively, they show that when it comes to companies operating in the Gulf, BP is the exception and not the rule.
Believe it or not, those of you who have the type of friends or family (or cultural background) where starting a business from scratch is a legitimate reason to borrow money are the exception and not the rule.
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Somewhere between the 13-year-old in rural Mississippi who wants to go to Harvard and the second-graders in Harlem studying Vincent Van Gogh, I ceased being surprised and started being angry that what I saw was still the exception and not the rule.
You leave with "golden passport" in hand, perhaps with the intent of creating a more equitable world where stories like yours are the rule and not the exception.
The country had (and has) space to spare, which is why the ribbon of low-rise development is the rule and the skyscraper the exception.
HTC's mantra -- much of its sense of purpose -- circles around the design of its products, and the VX is no exception to that rule.
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But this is the exception to the rule, and most developers have to go the well trodden path of mainstream game genres if they are to attract publishers and, ultimately, an audience.
Climate change is the natural rule, not the exception, and extreme weather events are part of the deal.
But, as more and more American companies revise their earnings, it appears that greed and dodgy accounting have been the rule and not the exception in corporate America.
Britain is an exception to the rule, and its NHS is not exactly the envy of the developed world.
But Scott Zeger, the head of the department of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins, who performed the statistical analysis in the study, points out that clustered sampling is the rule rather than the exception in public-health studies, and that the patterns of deaths caused by epidemics are also very variable by location.
The EU must continue allowing for opt-outs, such as the refusal of the UK and Denmark to join the euro, but "they remain the exception, not the rule", he said.
Wal-Mart remains the exception to the rule in the crumbling retail sector thanks to its global footprint and deeply discounted prices.
Executive Director Anthony Romero said the legal exception applies only when there is a continued threat to public safety and is "not an open-ended exception" to the Miranda rule, which guarantees the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.
Hedging would be allowed, as an exception to everything else in the rule, and would not have to be precise.
Sorry to say, these deadly mistakes are commonplace and often the rule rather than the exception in many hospitals.
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Glaxo and SmithKline may prove to be the exception to this rule.
Addicts however, those who form uncontrollable and often detrimental obsessions, are the exception rather than the rule.
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.
Online education, night school, and apprenticeships should become the rule rather than the exception.
National histories, he argues, are always local responses to broader trends, and to that rule the United States is no exception.
Madeira was an exception to this rule, and because it escaped the British taxes Madeira enjoyed a significant price advantage over other wines.
There is an exception to this general rule, and that is when the 401(k) offers matching contributions.
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 judge held that Merrill's mistake was a mere bookkeeping error and waived the 60-day rule, essentially creating an exception for clerical mistakes.
Companies should be falling over themselves to cater to this influential segment, and yet within the Android ecosystem, that's the exception to the rule.
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FEMA, when it's adequately funded and staffed by competent professionals, is not an exception but the rule.
And regionwide, Hong Kong's plateauing demand is more the exception than the rule.
The Commerce Department is attempting to operationalize the mathematical equivalence argument by making this tiny, rarely-ever-used exception the new rule so that it has license to engage in zeroing and inflate antidumping duty rates on behalf of certain domestic producers.
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Star CEO drop-outs like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs may be famous, but they are by far the exception to the rule.
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