Sentence examples for for an alibi from inspiring English sources

He had secretly given a friend £19,000 for an alibi.

But often people are looking for an alibi to not try something new.

In fact, the more I listen to Farouk the more I think he's not looking for a peace deal, he's looking for an alibi.

Several mornings, around dawn, Sragow and Kerry prowled the loading docks in South Boston, looking for an alibi witness, a man who had refused to testify for the defense at the first trial because he was wanted by loan sharks.

The other bit of impunity-related news today is that George Bush, in his memoir, which I wrote about yesterday, is not looking for an alibi when it comes to ordering torture.

Jean Balan, a lawyer for one of the other defendants, said, "This anti-Semitism certainly is not based on philosophical, historical or religious criteria, but on crude clichés that first associated money and Jews, then associated Jews, the West and evil when they were looking for an alibi for their barbarism".

I think Paris is more of an alibi for cynics (Saudi Arabia signed it!) than a mechanism for action.

The police had concealed the existence of an alibi for Gerard Conlon, and the lord chief justice, Lord Lane, overturned the convictions.

He was sentenced to four years for perjury and perverting the course of justice for faking an alibi in a 1987 libel case involving prostitute Monica Coghlan.

Neither can the desire for coalition become an alibi for excusing white racism.

Instead of being a voice for the weak, Falwell provided an alibi for the strong.