(1) No person shall interfere or meddle with or move in any way any of the Company's mobile equipment or trucks, or make use of its tramlines except with the permission of an official of the Company.
This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.
One of the trombonists has got an impressive sense of rhythm, and could be an excellent musician—except that he has breathing difficulties, and he doesn't really have enough breath for the trombone.
The grown-ups discouraged me in my painter's career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside.