Sentence examples for the alibi that from inspiring English sources

The best-selling author's downfall was triggered six weeks ago when Mr Francis decided to tell the bizarre 1987 tale of the alibi that never was to the News of the World.

Droudis later gave the alibi that she was at her parents' place helping her ailing father shower at the time of the murder, he said.

He saved his most disparaging remarks for the alibi that Mr. Schwarz presented in the trial: that he was not inside the 70th Precinct station house at all during the attack but outside searching his patrol car.

In closing remarks, the state used those files to argue that Gutierrez had good reason not to investigate the alibi, suggesting, on the basis of a handwritten note in Gutierrez's papers hat appeared to question a detail of the alibi, that the testimony would have hurt the defense.

It contained a plea of ignorance that was essentially the alibi that Sosa, the Chicago Cubs' slugger and irresistible rags-to-riches story, presented after that ignominious moment Tuesday night at Wrigley Field when he hit a ground ball that shattered his bat and exposed the illegal cork in it.

Come on – up and at 'em!" Though the guilt and redemption route is the approved alibi that enables erring public figures to earn forgiveness, there remains a quite understandable fascination with people who refuse to follow its feeble code.

By establishing that the teenagers were part of a crowd that was bothering or beating other people during the critical time of the rape, the reconstruction provides them with an alibi that is plausible, if not airtight, and certainly unsavory.

The moral alibi that this racism adopts is the assertion that halal slaughter, without stunning, is cruel and painful.

But that is merely an alibi that allows the French to claim that they have nothing against reform in principle, but that the reforms being proposed are riddled with injustice.

In exchange for some undisclosed favor, she casually offers to provide Clay with a false alibi that will prevent the police from arresting him as an accomplice to Julian's murder.

A poem is read as if it were an alibi that is rather too fluent to be entirely trusted.