61.   They were the rare exception -- Californians who the locals were happy to see.

62.   Tisma likes to relate the story of a rare exception, a German soldier in Serbia, Jozef Schulz, who refused to shoot civilians lined up for execution.

63.   To him, the lovers on the big screen who surmount class obstacles are the rare exceptions, not the rule.

64.   Until now, with rare exceptions, evolutionary biologists have relied on lab experiments to demonstrate how plants and animals physically adapt to new environments.

65.   While it used to be that many stations in even mid-sized cities had their own reporters, that has become the rare exception.

66.   With rare exception, pictures are nonexistent.

67.   With rare exception, Southern Republicans opposed locks on handguns.

68.   With rare exception, the Canadian military stops checks the moment a soldier is arrested by anyone.

69.   With rare exceptions little of what is presented would pass muster among academic folklorists.

70.   With rare exceptions video imagery always seems too literal-minded or tritely symbolic or simply vulgar.