Giving one's heart to Christ can alas be done in a fit of absence of mind, and many youth ministries therefore have contingency plans.
And negative spin from their respective ringside teams can, alas, not be ruled out.
What Foster Wallace would have made of the SS Coachella, a music festival that had its maiden voyage last week, can, alas, only be surmised.
And even though I have learned from Tocqueville that the margin between democracy and tyranny can, alas, be very thin, "American Vertigo" is in fact meant to discard these anti-American clichés that keep us from discussing the actual challenges facing our two societies.
That's what can happen – alas, so's that – a heavy serve, into the net, tries a drop shot with all the time in the world and finds the net.
He can sometimes, alas, come off like a Portuguese Andy Rooney, ranting about pipsqueak annoyances.
(The can opener, alas, came later; early cans had to be speared with a bayonet, crudely smashed against a rock, or shot).
What it can do, alas, and quite readily, is make a crowd into a valuable commodity -- a point made often by the leading chronicler of flash mobs, the blog (of course) www.cheesebikini.com.
Though the government enthuses about the "strong ethos" of a religious education, it can sometimes, alas, be a bit too potent.In Scotland, several previous experiments with private Muslim schools have ended when local authorities closed the schools because the standards proved too low.
For good measure he added that one of his goals was to prevent the EU becoming a "Trojan horse for neo-liberalism".Freaky ways to fight boredomSuch over-heated rhetoric and the conflicts it can generate may, alas, be the best way for the European Parliament to win attention.
And although Penn Station can never, alas, be recreated, there are plans to convert the neighbouring post office building - another imposing structure, also designed by McKim, Mead and White - into a new passenger concourse which might once again invest the experience of train travel with dignity and grandeur.
