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The only way to ensure further progress is to adopt alternative resources and build a unified energy market.
But like Kim and Lula, Tsipras could marshal political support from some on the left who reckon, “If he now says that these measures are unavoidable, there truly must be no alternative.”
Likewise, India, Brazil, and South Africa are democracies, and occasionally meet in an alternative forum that they call “IBSA.”
Instead of being an alternative to war, the financial arms race made war more likely – as it may well be doing with Russia today.
Two features of the global economic landscape have contributed to this growing interest in alternative economic-policy options.
The alternative – considering the development of nuclear weapons – would be a game-losing move.
Even in developed countries where relatively higher wages encourage the adoption of labor-saving technology, job losses will likely be offset by projected increases in demand for goods and services, driven by productivity and income gains, growing health-care needs, and investment in alternative energy and infrastructure.
Given the tumultuous international environment and the EU’s own recent close call, there is no alternative but to take action, and her remarks could have far-reaching consequences for Germany’s place in the EU, and for its relationship with France.
Though circumstances dictate that Bernanke is the best candidate and should be reappointed, the real challenge is to ensure a thorough intellectual housecleaning at the Fed in order to open space for alternative economic views.
And there is no alternative to be seen without America.
That is why PNVs should be actively promoted as an alternative to tobacco products, aided by endorsements from health authorities, tax advantages, and support from the anti-smoking movement.
Though, in an ideal world, people would simply be able to quit using nicotine altogether, experience suggests that many smokers cannot – or do not want to – give it up, and will continue to smoke if there is no safe and acceptable alternative.
It is true that sometimes a country may have no alternative to fiscal “consolidation,” if its creditors insist on it, as has been the case with Greece and some other eurozone members.
Reorienting investments and exports toward Eurasia offers an alternative.
This led both countries to seek an alternative future in each other’s company.
These factors make a good argument for coal as a cheap alternative source of Africa's power.
Some argue that gas might be a better alternative to hydro or coal, but for countries that must import much of their gas the benefits of a stable and reliable source of cheap fuel in the form of coal present a very strong counter-argument to the capital costs of a gas plant.
For nearly 80 years Labour was the main political alternative to the Conservative Party or Tories, and in several general elections it defeated them.
Are the benefits of using biometric data significant enough that refugees should have no alternative?
The alternative is a formulaic educational experience that not only lacks individual character, but that is also devoid of moral purpose.
The alternative – short-term aid that trickles in with no meaningful strategy – will produce only further disappointment.
Yet Europe’s political establishment continues to argue that there is no alternative to the status quo.
Moreover, Europe has grown used to the concept of cap-and-trade, and many are loathe to try an alternative.
Until recently, Europe was ill-prepared for this alternative.
Desperate for any assistance at all, Bolivia's governments ultimately uprooted thousands of hectares of peasant crops--and got almost nothing in return but a lot of phony slogans about alternative development.
An alternative scenario suggests that these fears emanate from a real problem.
The main alternative tradition takes the opposite tack, arguing that other countries’ domestic affairs are what matter most, whether for reasons of morality and principle, or because it is believed that how a government behaves at home affects how it acts abroad.
The shared conviction that there is no alternative to the UN negotiating process is its greatest strength.
Countries could use the revenues as an alternative to other taxes – it makes much more sense to tax bad things than good things.
At the very least, it is worth giving the alternative a chance.
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