Alternative
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For more than three decades, Phelps has shown that there is an
alternative
approach.
As North America becomes self-sufficient in gas, more from various other regions will be freed up to provide
alternative
sources for Europe, thereby diminishing Russia’s leverage.
The
alternative
– jihadist anarchy that would turn Gaza into a Palestinian Somalia – is simply too unbearable to contemplate.
To be sure, governance that is effective, legitimate, and responsive provides untold benefits, especially when compared to the alternative: inefficient governance, cronyism, and corruption.
But the Schengen agreement offers an alternative, namely arrangements between individual states.
The political risk for both of them will be anything but small, but the
alternative
– the failure of the euro – is unacceptable for both countries.
This is what is great about technological solutions to climate change: if an
alternative
option is cheaper, people will start using it.
And in places where lights are not used very often, a lower-price incandescent bulb can cost less overall than the energy-efficient
alternative.
We will only solve global warming by ensuring that
alternative
technologies are better than our current options.
When democracy is discredited by its own practitioners, there is much greater public willingness to embrace a seemingly efficient
alternative.
It is, however, possible to envisage an
alternative
scenario to that of a growing gap between "haves" and "have-nots."
The only
alternative
to this bleak possibility seems remote today and may never be viable: a single global state in which all children are provided with the same genetic enhancements and the same opportunities for health, happiness, and success.
In no sense was income maintenance seen as an
alternative
to work.
Clearly, if the social market model is to expand eastward - thereby ensuring its viability within the whole Union - this is the only viable
alternative.
Many parents see chess as an attractive
alternative
to mindless video games.
The
alternative
is to overcome past divisions by forging a new, more inclusive definition of “us,” one that acknowledges the potential contribution of the knowhow that exists, in the heads where it exists, and ensures that it can flow to a broader segment of society over time.
Given this, America’s strategic adversaries, China and Russia – and even its ally, the European Union – are trying to establish
alternative
payment systems to protect themselves in the future.
But there is no
alternative.
Given how unlikely North Korea is to denuclearize, at least in the immediate future, an
alternative
strategy is needed.
Two
alternative
models seemed to work until 2008.
And yet, just when the country’s democratic institutions could most benefit from such a mirror, those who have historically held it up now believe they have no
alternative
but to put it down.
The proposed
alternative
of separation payments but no recourse to the courts is the right economic answer, or at least it goes in the right direction.
With production costs rising in China, international buyers are looking for
alternative
sourcing destinations for manufactured products.
When children fall sick, parents do not have the time to apply for a loan from a state-owned bank (perhaps the only
alternative
source of loans for the poor other than the moneylender).
The widespread belief among micro-financiers is that the curbs were imposed not because the industry was exploitative, but because it offered an
alternative
to political patronage.
For example, in Uganda, banks now extend loans to women to buy land; women in the Democratic Republic of Congo can officially register their businesses; and, in Indonesia, women can use
alternative
forms of collateral to obtain loans.
Neither
alternative
is something that I would have predicted – or even imagined.
Globalization is increasingly viewed as an
alternative
to domestic structural complexity.
But with a combination of medical expertise and inventive thinking, Jobayer Chisti, my colleague at the health research organization icddr,b, has developed a simple and affordable
alternative
to bubble CPAP using materials that are readily available even in poor countries, such as empty shampoo bottles and plastic tubing.
Last year, Chisti and his team, in collaboration with colleagues from Australia and with funding from the Australian Agency for International Development, conducted a clinical trial in Bangladesh to compare the efficacy of this
alternative
apparatus to the low- and high-flow oxygen therapies recommended by the World Health Organization in resource-poor contexts.
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