Alas, most of this increase is bound to take place simply because of the high birth rate since 1956.
American politicians' minds are always concentrated - and, alas, their thoughts are seldom of all eternity (or even, so far as one can tell, of their place in history).
On occasion, alas, our guts are invaded by bacteria that inter fere with the proper operation of the system, causing various unseemly ailments and, in extreme cases, death.
The answer, alas, is usually yes.
Historians, alas, must proceed to the question of just what the author is trying to prove and what kind of reading he gives to his sources.
He made every effort to explain to them the rules of harmony, but, alas, mostly without any success.
In any event this means that, my aspirations notwithstanding, the involuntariness argument is not, alas, theologically neutral.
Local authorities, alas, find it difficult to see the total cost-benefit wood for the trees.
