Example collocations logo

Option in sentence

1784 examples of Option in a sentence

But this is not an option for NGOs that focus only on emergency responses.
A final – and particularly surprising – potential option, which the United Arab Emirates is now exploring, is iceberg towage.
If they choose the latter option, the new state will come into being on July 9, 2011.
Bombing is not an option for fighting terrorist cells in Hamburg, Singapore, or Detroit.
But the popularity of the handout option raises an important and instructive question: just how did the ruling classes in these countries amass fortunes so large that people are clamoring for them to be redistributed?
The first option is to do nothing and allow the currency to appreciate.
If allowing a currency to appreciate freely is costly, the second option is unsterilized foreign-exchange intervention.
The third option is sterilized intervention.
The fourth option is to impose capital controls on inflows (or liberalize controls on outflows).
The fifth option is to tighten fiscal policy and reduce budget deficits with the aim of lowering the high interest rates that drive the inflows.
A sixth option – especially where a country has carried out partially sterilized intervention to prevent excessive currency appreciation – is to reduce the risk of credit and asset bubbles by imposing prudential supervision of the financial system.
The final option is massive, large-scale, and permanent sterilized intervention – or, equivalently, the use of sovereign wealth funds or other fiscal-stabilization mechanisms – to accumulate the foreign assets needed to compensate for the effects on the currency’s value brought about by long-term inflows.
The argument for this option is that long-term secular factors are important drivers of capital inflows, as advanced-economy investors discover that they are underweight in emerging-market assets and reduce their portfolios’ “home bias.”
Not providing insurance and paying the fine is a particularly attractive option for a firm if its employees have incomes that entitle them to the government subsidies (which are now available to anyone whose income is below four times the poverty level).
But private insurance companies could solve that problem by creating a new type of “emergency insurance” that would make enrolling now unnecessary and allow individuals to take advantage of the wait-to-insure option.
The “wait-to-insure” option could cause the number of insured individuals to decline rapidly as premiums rise for those who remain insured.
In particular, there is a gnawing fear that the US may yet choose the “G-2” option: a grand bargain with China for the two countries to decide Asia’s fate by themselves and over our heads.
Furthermore, military or semi-military intervention is not the only option on the table.
Today's conflicts demonstrate more clearly than ever that a military solution is neither the sole nor the best option, particularly during the stabilization of a crisis — a truth President Barack Obama has also emphasised.
The second option is more proactive: plant billions of new trees.
In a House committee meeting, you learn before anyone else that a proposed public-insurance option – a program that would compete with private insurance – will not be included.
However, amniocentesis and CVS both entail a 0.5-1% risk of pregnancy loss, and if an abnormality is diagnosed the only clinical option is to terminate the pregnancy.
Clearly, couples carrying a transmissible genetic defect and otherwise requiring IVF should be offered the option of PGD, and if necessary, referral to a center that can perform this specialized procedure.
They could well prefer this option to natural conception and the prospect of therapeutic abortion following a conventional prenatal genetic diagnosis.
Ethicists have grappled with such scenarios, and many would find this clinical option to be ethically sound.
As with many unhappy marriages, divorce is not an option.
Alas, Europe’s political establishment, unwilling to adopt either option, has chosen to extend Greece’s insolvency – which it pretends has been resolved through new loan tranches.
A third option would be to confront the European banking union’s shortcomings by setting out a comprehensive plan to restructure, recapitalize, and consolidate the Italian banking system, thereby ending decades of poor governance and bad supervisory practices.
May has voiced distaste for “off-the-shelf arrangements,” but something like Norway’s arrangement with the European Economic Area (EEA), with a few bespoke differences, seems likely to be Britain’s best option – access to the single market, but no participation in political and judicial institutions.
China has no easy option for addressing this problem.
BackNext