Sentence examples for in default of not from inspiring English sources

Is evil-doing … possible in default of not just 'base motives'... but of any motives whatever … Might the problem of good and evil, our faculty for telling right from wrong, be connected with our faculty of thought?" (LM, vol. I, 4 5).

Trump warned officials at the RNC they would be "in default of their pledge" if they didn't step in and tell Cruz to play nice with him.

Still, the team and Prudential Center would be in default of $77 million in debt if not for deadline extensions by their lenders.

A. Michael P. Graff, a Manhattan real estate lawyer, said that if the letter writer is not in default of her lease and carries out all the terms of the purchase contained in the option provision, she would have the legal right to buy the apartment at the option price -- though she may have to go to court to enforce that right.

Mr. Kelleher said Nortel would not be in default of loans, but it could face automatic repayment within 90 days if it did not file its financial reports, or renegotiate its loan agreements with creditors.

Thus both the Eastern and Western Regions of Nigeria are expected to become independent this year, and though, in default of the Northern Region following suit, this will not automatically confer full independence on Nigeria as such, the handling of its affairs at a "higher level" than the Colonial Office may well be put forward as a compromise in the delicate constitutional negotiations in May.

Music carries us to God in default of truth".