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On the right, Sarkozy, despite his defeat two years ago, still views himself as the only alternative.
In 2015, China launched the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which some saw as an alternative to the World Bank; but the new institution adheres to international rules and cooperates with the World Bank.
Pious talk about reworking the UN sanctions is another version of the second alternative - that is, of doing nothing.
One premise underlies this entire line of thought: to imagine that there is a democratic alternative to Saddam, or that once he disappears there will be a democratic transition in Iraq, is to entertain dangerous illusions.
The only alternative to Saddam's regime is some sort of military rule, but one less oppressive and relatively more open.
The sudden discontinuation of the supply of petroleum and natural resources from Russia in the early 1990’s, the failure of the centrally-planned economy, and the subsequent massive famine in the mid-1990’s left North Korea’s leaders no alternative but to tolerate informal market activities.
If this preferred solution proves unacceptable, an alternative would be to strengthen Article II-52, to state clearly that the twelve "social rights" of Part II apply to the Union, but not to the member states, even when these are implementing Union directives.
The decision by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to abolish the post of Commissioner for Enlargement has been seen as highly symbolic, leaving many in search of an alternative model.
For the Balkans, as for the rest of Europe, the EU is the only alternative to a future as bad as the worst of the past.
There was no realistic alternative, I concluded, to a future in which the leading national currencies, the dollar and the euro, still dominated international transactions.
With central banks seeking an alternative to dollars and euros, isn’t now a perfect time to expand the role of SDRs?
The US, for its part, must balance continued support for its conventional military forces, which remain an important deterrent in Asia and Europe, with investment in a broad portfolio of alternative capabilities that conflicts in the Middle East require.
But, if China is to replicate the success of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, there is no alternative to tough reform.
Together, these trends have fed the widespread perception that there are no alternative forms of EU governance, and that Europe is being run by elites who have little concern for the interests of the people they are supposed to be serving.
For the time being, the only certainty is that – to invoke another hackneyed phrase – there is no alternative.
Yes, the dollar would remain the world’s main reserve currency even after a gratuitous bout of default; there is simply no good alternative yet – certainly not today’s euro.
Immanuel Kant, with his categorical imperative, provided the philosophical foundations for those who wanted an alternative basis for ethics than that provided by religious aphorisms.
But it is to be hoped that the West's legal systems will provide an alternative recourse, one that will not only partially redress past injustices, but provide incentives for corporations to think twice before profiting from brutal regimes in the future.
With a high gasoline price, alternative sources of energy such as ethanol and alternative forms of transportation such as electrically powered automobiles would become commercially viable.
For most of the last decade, the DPJ was not seen as a viable alternative to the LDP, although they appeared to form a pseudo-two-party system.
So here is an alternative story.
According to Mendel, a gene's presence in an organism is confirmed only when we find an alternative form of it, called an allele .
But this is only half the story: we also need to support and promote alternative, credible voices online to counter the extremist narrative.
Those votes may have been merely symbolic, given Obama’s veto power; nonetheless, the striking fact remains that the Republicans never bothered to try to formulate an alternative in the event that one of their own would one day become president.
In fact, they couldn’t formulate a workable alternative to Obamacare, because some within their ranks refuse to accept the basic laws of arithmetic.
Others recognize that the costs are unacceptable – indeed, that is why the Republican-proposed replacement has just been rejected – but have been unable to put forward any credible alternative.
But there is another, deeper reason why the Republicans cannot come up with an alternative to Obamacare: the ACA is based firmly on their own ideas.
Could there be a better alternative?
Reaching that point will be arduous for both sides, but as President Clinton said when announcing the summit, the alternative is far worse.
With no one having a direct financial interest in the outcome pressing an alternative view, the SEC’s initial decision was as predictable as it was bad.
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