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If France and China were prevented from completing their series, they would either refuse to sign a test-ban treaty altogether or insist on such major exceptions that the treaty would be devalued, to the delight of the test lobby in the United States and elsewhere and the frustrations of all those who want to stop the bomb from spreading.

Both were necessary, but, with few exceptions, the region is not using the commodity windfall to do what it must: improve technological capacities sufficiently to ensure that future economic growth does not depend entirely on the fickle furtunes of finite natural resources.

Nor are the apparent exceptions proof to the contrary.

With very small exceptions, the Libya campaign was exclusively an air war.

Perhaps the EU will make special exceptions to protect the British university sector, or treat the UK like Liechtenstein, a microstate with access to the single market.

The current conflicts with North Korea (where he has called for preemptive military action) and Iran (where he has repeatedly proposed regime change by force) are no exceptions.

Although women do head central banks in 17 emerging markets – including Malaysia, Russia, Argentina, South Africa, Lesotho, and Botswana – they are the exceptions that prove a general rule: women are excluded from the world of monetary policymaking.

I am not sure whether the present era of mass media encourages the emergence and the growth of politicians of the stature, say, of a Winston Churchill;I rather doubt it, though there can always be exceptions.

Initially, even currency boards were considered unacceptable, although, as is often the case in Europe, exceptions were made: countries with currency boards could keep them after entry into the EU.

With a couple of notable exceptions, the mediocrity of most of Leung’s appointees elicited sighs even from his political allies.

With the exceptions of the US and Germany, the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers has been declining in all Western countries in the last 17 years.

But improvement presupposes diagnosing why Europe’s productivity performance, with a few notable exceptions, has been so bad.

With rare exceptions, politics has become a discredited profession throughout the West.

Far from being the norm in scientific research, fraud and cheating are rare exceptions, and are usually quickly identified by other scientists.

With some isolated and short-lived exceptions – for example, in India under the Emperor Ashoka and in Japan under the Tokugawa shogun Tsunayoshi – laws to protect animals from cruelty are less than 200 years old.

We should not allow the many exceptions or temporary financial-market worries to obscure this underlying reality.

With a few limited and recent exceptions, there is no such thing as property in tissue once it has left your body.

Although peace, order, and political stability are widely perceived as essential prerequisites for invention, entrepreneurship, and economic development, there have been many exceptions to this rule – especially when it comes to creativity and innovation.

With a few minor exceptions, migration is internal to the region, and a modus vivendi has been reached with the drug trade, mainly coca leaf and cocaine in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.

And, despite a few notable exceptions in northern Europe and parts of Latin America, the rise in inequality has affected the developed and developing worlds alike.

There are of course exceptions to this principle.

But, fortunately, such cases are exceptions.

With few exceptions, Italian recipients of Nobel prizes, the Fields Medal in mathematics, the Pritzker Prize in architecture, or the Breakthrough Prize in life sciences have spent their careers abroad.

The exceptions often confirm the rule.

In fact, it would be fair to say that European politicians, with few exceptions, such as Tony Blair, have been slow to adjust their worldviews in accordance with the revolutionary pace of change in Asia.

In the East, a growing number of economies -- exceptions come in the CIS, though Russia is starting to grow -- are expanding fast.

The only exceptions would be members of the armed forces, police, and firefighters, where the unique nature of the work suggests that a pension age of 60 would be more appropriate.

Their members kowtow to CEOs, do not examine management decisions closely, and, with very few exceptions, rubber-stamp compensation requests.

With a few rare but laudable exceptions, officials at multilateral institutions have not questioned these unconventional monetary policies, and have largely been enthusiastic about them.

Nor is it the case that US government officials are typically bribed in an open fashion (though there have been some prominent exceptions).

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