Alternative in sentence

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When the opposition party decided to shut down part of the city center, we negotiated alternative routes.

And I don't see this as an alternative to civilization.

Now I'm going to try and argue for a third alternative that's much more illuminating than either of those, and to put this into perspective, let's imagine that a Martian came down to Earth and found a ruined civilization.

We want alternative energy sources that can compete on price.

Now, technologists, business leaders and economists all basically agree on what national policies and international treaties would spur the development of alternative energy: mostly, a significant increase in energy research and development, and some kind of price on carbon.

And there's an alternative.

But I'd leave a reminder that the alternative isn't very pleasant, either.

So is one of the parties lying, or is there some other alternative explanation?

Well, if our brain costs just as much energy as it should, and if we can't spend every waking hour of the day feeding, then the only alternative, really, is to somehow get more energy out of the same foods.

So I became much more tolerant of the vast world of alternative treatments.

And yet, when I went to look at alternative treatments, I also gained perspective on other treatments.

Now at the other end of alternative treatments, let me tell you about Frank Russakoff.

It's a social citadel; it's an impregnable fortress which resists any assault, any alternative.

By identifying alternative ways of doing things, we can actually start to innovate, and I say actually start to innovate.

There's a role in here for alternative stuff, but we've also got to get that other portion right.

Which means, in many cases, flying can be a long-term, compelling alternative to traveling on the ground.

And this is why we at the Bertelsmann Foundation have invested a lot of time and effort thinking about an alternative for the sector.

So in a nutshell, INCRA would offer an alternative to the current system of the big three rating agencies by adding a new, nonprofit player to the mix that would increase the competition, it would increase the transparency of the sector, and it would also increase the quality.

Of course, China is not the only place where this alternative fuel exists, nor the only place where it is possible.

Wherever this alternative fuel exists, be it in China or Africa, Southeast Asia or the American heartland, we should endeavor to follow it with capital and with effort, driving both economic and societal impact all over the world.

CA: So the question that a lot of people have here is, what do you make of Snowden's motivations for doing what he did, and did he have an alternative way that he could have gone?

RL: He absolutely did have alternative ways that he could have gone, and I actually think that characterizing him as a whistleblower actually hurts legitimate whistleblowing activities.

The alternative to that is one that's much less efficient and much more invasive of privacy, which is gigantic amounts of content collection.

And so if we had an alternative approach and used wind or solar to do this, the land area would be about 15 times larger, looking at the state of New Jersey now.

So we are trying different types of energy now, alternative energy, but it proved quite difficult to find something that's as convenient and as cost-effective as oil, gas and coal.

So not surprisingly, there's a lot of effort that's been done to look at alternative cooking fuels.

And so we thought perhaps there might be a better way to come up with an alternative cooking fuel.

But I think it's worth the effort, because the alternative, to blindly fight all hackers, is to go against the power you cannot control at the cost of stifling innovation and regulating knowledge.

In any easy choice, one alternative is better than the other.

In a hard choice, one alternative is better in some ways, the other alternative is better in other ways, and neither is better than the other overall.

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