make exception
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They’re just willing to make exception for certain people.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021
“We need to protect the work of academics as set forth in Freedom of Information Acts, which laws make exception for information that should be legitimately protected, for example relating to research,” said Mr. Schnare.
From Washington Times ● May 15, 2016
Nor shall we make exception to that rule.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
But the walking delegate, knowing that all bosses are not so well disposed, that he may not grant to one what he refuses to others, cannot make exception, even if it seems reasonable to him.
From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards
I make exception of the few homes on your planet where the parents are in spiritual growth, but these homes are not ideal—just a beginning of Idealism.
From The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation by J. L. Kennon
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