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“With very few exceptions, books and the films that they spawn are very different,” he explains.

Garrett Watson, the director of policy analysis at the Tax Foundation, said in an interview with Salon that, with a few exceptions, “a lot of it is extending, effectively, the status quo.”

There are limited exceptions to this which allow a state to seize a ship, such as a "hot pursuit" where a vessel is chased from a country's waters into the high seas.

Sport was the exception to the rule that all things American were the world’s cultural lingua franca.

The owner typically doesn’t take bookings so far out but was willing to make an exception — as long as the guest was willing to pay more.