Sentence examples for the alibi of from inspiring English sources

It is, he says, "the alibi of a man who did not know that he would be called upon for such a thing".

"The Godfather" has the alibi of obvious greatness; even if it were the culprit, not a court in the world would convict it.

But, even before the revelation that this particular atrocity had been as homegrown as a bushel of wheat, the alibi of foreign infection already seemed evasive.

Consider Eco's caution against "the alibi of photocopies": "A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work.

Distributors for these films didn't even have the alibi of being hit by sunny skies, since the weekend weather was pretty poor across the UK, which may have been a factor in relatively modest declines for many titles.

The proposition is if they are prepared to move to a basis where they are legislatively established, the alibi of the centre - which is 'we don't really have sufficient certainty to devolve with confidence' - is removed.

Inspector Sejer sets out to crack the alibis of the survivors.

It's a question that, like the alibis of his seamier clients, is open to interpretation.

DETECTIVE: We checked the alibis of everyone he was with that night.

Certainly it gives a picture of Aciman's mind: his love of recursion and contradiction, of being "elsewhere" (this is how he defines the "alibis" of the title), of cultivating shadow-selves and always feeling out of place.

Masters of distraction, they are seeking to replace the alibis of old — "resistance" to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and resentment of the power of the United States — by stoking new, and far more dangerous, fears.