Alternative in sentence

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So I got out my yellow pad, I drew a line down the middle, and I tried my best to think of the reasons for and against each alternative.

It's a mistake to think that in hard choices, one alternative really is better than the other, but we're too stupid to know which, and since we don't know which, we might as well take the least risky option.

Now, if there's no best option, if the scales don't tip in favor of one alternative over another, then surely the alternatives must be equally good.

When alternatives are on a par, it may matter very much which you choose, but one alternative isn't better than the other.

Imagine a world in which every choice you face is an easy choice, that is, there's always a best alternative.

If there's a best alternative, then that's the one you should choose, because part of being rational is doing the better thing rather than the worse thing, choosing what you have most reason to choose.

So when we face hard choices, we shouldn't beat our head against a wall trying to figure out which alternative is better.

There is no best alternative.

Mainly he knew that he hated medicine because the sight of blood made him sick so he had to have an alternative career path.

These are the reasons I founded University of the People, a nonprofit, tuition-free, degree-granting university to give an alternative, to create an alternative, to those who have no other; an alternative that will be affordable and scalable, an alternative that will disrupt the current education system, and open the gates to higher education for every qualified student regardless of what they earn, where they live, or what society says about them.

But, we also must admit that we haven't been good at using those same networks and technologies to successfully articulate an alternative to what we're seeing and find the consensus and build the alliances that are needed to make it happen.

This is exactly what's being discussed in Japan nowadays, and if you have a disciplined population like the Japanese, this may work, but we know that in Chile, this land is going to be occupied illegally anyhow, so this alternative was unrealistic and undesirable.

Second alternative: build a big wall, heavy infrastructure to resist the energy of the waves.

This alternative was conveniently lobbied by big building companies, because it meant 42 million dollars in contracts, and was also politically preferred, because it required no land expropriation.

So this alternative was irresponsible.

So we thought that we had to produce a third alternative, and our approach was against geographical threats, have geographical answers.

So as a conclusion of the participatory design, the alternative was validated politically and socially, but there was still the problem of the cost: 48 million dollars.

Vincent Moon: How can we use computers, cameras, microphones to represent the world in an alternative way, as much as possible?

Now, there are backstop options, which is other alternative technologies that people are working on.

The alternative is a world in which even a blade of grass is a potentially lethal weapon.

Frank, a 59-year-old hardware store owner, doesn't even like going to the doctor and wants to find someone who believes in prevention first, but who is comfortable with alternative treatments.

We add our values when it comes to women's health, LGBT health, alternative medicine, preventive health, and end-of-life decisions.

Consider these two alternative scenarios.

By changing the message, we were able to provide an alternative narrative which promoted the rights of women in Libya.

It's a cathartic alternative."

But the alternative would mean to live in a world where anyone's calls or anyone's text messages could be surveilled by criminals, by stalkers and by foreign intelligence agencies.

But then I began to explore another alternative.

The alternative is that the Big Bang wasn't the beginning.

So, to cut a long story short, we've explored this alternative.

The alternative is just unacceptable.

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