Alternative
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Germany doesn’t have a low-carbon
alternative
if it shutters its nuclear plants, and the same is true of most other countries.
Alternative
energy sources are too expensive and nowhere near reliable enough to replace fossil fuels.
Until we can find a feasible alternative, reducing reliance on one of them means that another must take its place.
The failure of Abbas’s peaceful methods has made the
alternative
of violence look increasingly attractive.
It wants to keep prices lower to maintain the global economy’s oil addiction and deter technological substitution of
alternative
energy sources.
Progress on this front would enable equity and bond markets to provide an important
alternative
to bank lending for the largest companies – and free up capital for banks to lend to SMEs and consumers.
So in some odd way, this sabbatical in Russia is my
alternative
to a double mastectomy – a positive one, to be sure, but the same kind of reset-button experience.
And the existence of a viable
alternative
has had a disciplining effect on politicians: not by chance, Silvio Berlusconi’s government served its entire electoral term.
Now consider an
alternative
method.
With the end of the Cold War, China had two options concerning India: to regard it as a natural ally, together with Russia, in building up an
alternative
to American dominance in the region, or to identify it as a potential adversary.
Even during the liberal Prague Spring, Havel remained a dissenter, never accepting the idea of "socialism with a human face," arguing instead that real democracy was the only
alternative
to communism.
With the trading arrangements of the European common market increasingly subsumed by the globalisation of free trade and agriculture under the World Trade Organisation, and with American dominance of Nato providing the only meaningful security guarantee, and with English now irrevocably established as the world's lingua franca, a clear
alternative
is emerging for the peripheral European countries, both rich and poor.
Hindu “fundamentalists” are, instead, chauvinists, whose religious faith is rooted not in any of Hinduism’s profound philosophical and spiritual underpinnings, but in its role as an
alternative
source of collective, if not “national,” identity.
Indirect but politically salient objectives such as “green jobs” will most likely continue to present a more attractive platform for promoting industrial policy than
alternative
energy or clean technologies.
Return is often dangerous, and the fact that
alternative
locations are almost uninhabitable means it is an induced choice.
But, by seizing on the idea of the BRICS, Putin revealed his desire to build an
alternative
global platform – and advance an
alternative
worldview.
Small wonder, then, that people are starting to ask whether India needs an
alternative
system of government.
But such schemes should not be dismissed in the developing world, where conditions are such that they could offer an affordable
alternative
to administratively unwieldy and ineffective welfare programs.
The turning point in this spring’s euro panic came when big holders of reserve currencies signaled that they saw the need for the euro as an
alternative
to the increasingly problematic dollar and the equally vulnerable yen.
If desirable real estate is in scarce supply, credit creation and allocation can at times be driven not by rational analysis of
alternative
investment projects, but by self-reinforcing cycles in which more credit drives asset prices higher, which then sustains expectations of further rises, leading to more borrowing demand and credit supply.
Moreover, China fears that Hong Kong, with a population of less than eight million, might present a systemic problem as an
alternative
form of government, even though many Communists and their allies hold key positions in Hong Kong’s private and public sectors.
As a result, holders of dollar-denominated assets should be looking forward to two
alternative
scenarios.
So, what
alternative
does the market see?
Ukraine’s allegiance is essential to Putin’s effort to establish his Russian-led Eurasian Union as an
alternative
to the European Union.
If our project is utopian, it is also the only
alternative
to a dystopia in the making.
The
alternative
for a fully sovereign Scotland would be to continue using the pound without retaining any influence over interest rates or the exchange rate.
Ukraine’s
alternative
would be to join a Russian-dominated Customs Union that includes Belarus and Kazakhstan.
The issue is not just the ECB’s legal authority under the Maastricht Treaty, but, more importantly, the appropriateness of
alternative
measures.
They are clueless and deluded practitioners of an
alternative
journalism whose idea of boldness is to go after an independent writer.
Finally, the insurgency as a whole remains nihilistic, focused on destroying the new Iraqi government and the emerging economic and political system rather than articulating a coherent
alternative.
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