Sentence examples for less alibis from inspiring English sources
This is, again, the curious reversal that has left all of us in need of some of the classic conservative lessons: that root causes are not all-purpose explanations, much less alibis; that economics are not everything, or even the major thing; that irrational ideology and identity count far more in human affairs.
I should be less an alibi than a character witness, providing testimony about the good a person does in the community or how great a friend that person is.
But if the grim churn of world politics slanted opinions in the 1930s, postwar critics had less of an alibi for judgments that now look distinctly hasty.
At the Freemasons bash, Louis learns that Julian has been less than honest about the alibi presented to the constabulary.
This implies that better monetary policy cannot take full credit for today's less painful recessions.The statistical magnifying glass also casts doubt on some favourite alibis for monetary misrule.
The conventional alibi of all fictionalised autobiography, which is that all of the events being described have more or less happened, and must therefore be in some larger sense true, is a powerful one.
The problem was less the accident itself, which, after ten years, the public seemed ready to forgive, than the evidence, less widely known, that in its immediate wake he had gone to considerable trouble to create a false alibi.
