Example collocations logo

Options in sentence

1314 examples of Options in a sentence

That said, Putin is keeping his options open to join the national plutocrats, in case their position dramatically strengthens.
A thriving global marketplace goes a long way toward leveling the playing field across all resource options.
Owing to this dynamic, the left has few good options.
There are simply no alternatives right now, and applying the entire gamut of sanctions from the outset would leave the EU and the US without further options.
Clearly, the world’s democracies lack perfect options, given everyone’s eminently reasonable reluctance to resort to force.
Little comfort is to be taken if Brazil's crisis is less extreme than Russia's, but surely it is time tell the IMF to start adopting winning strategies rather than gamble on the seemingly less painful options peddled by client governments.
Second, the volatile “carry trade” is notoriously difficult to measure, because most of it is conducted through derivatives in options, forwards, and swaps, which are treated as off-balance sheet – that is, as net numbers that are below the line in accounting terms.
Technology might be able to help, offering more options for substitution and recycling; but, as the many zero-waste communities and cities around the world have shown, it is not necessary.
This, in turn, shows that ordinary individuals have moral options that may be unavailable to the big institutional players.
Arogya Parivar is centered on recruiting and training residents of remote villages to become “health educators,” who, along with qualified doctors, organize “health camps” – mobile clinics that provide access to health screenings and a robust portfolio of treatment options.
None of these options is easy; each entails serious difficulties and great risks.
China’s leaders recognize that their policy options are limited: business as usual, repression, or reform.
Proposals by the French Treasury (from 2014!), for example, presented much more detailed policy options to achieve the ends that Macron appears to seek, as did proposals developed by Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan in 2015.
There are no good options for addressing the problem; and yet Trump cannot simply ignore it, or outsource it to China, as he suggested doing during the presidential campaign.
In recent years, private-sector funding options – such as venture capital, targeted-investment funds, and new asset classes – have opened up countless new opportunities for education-sector social entrepreneurs.
Meanwhile, off-grid options may not be sufficient to meet people’s energy needs.
The challenge, of course, will be for each African government to design a mini-grid strategy around the options and models that work locally.
In developing their electricity systems, most African countries will have to consider and combine many different models and options.
The options for further cooperation are many, ranging from intelligence and procurement to the development of an updated anti-terrorism doctrine (including cyber-terrorism), a domain to which NATO is a newcomer.
But, given thin empirical evidence and legitimate concerns about undermining trust in the effectiveness of government, and with so many options for the productive use of resources, this seems like a titanic ideological distraction.
Iran has three options for overcoming its current economic hardships: restructure the economy, balance the budget, and promote exports through a robust fiscal policy.
Politicians and regulators are exploring a number of options, from higher tax rates, through fines for certain types of bonus arrangements, to variable capital requirements.
India’s parliament must continue to debate all the options available.
Instead of presenting menus of options and listing the relevant trade-offs – which is what economics is about – economists have too often conveyed their own social and political preferences.
For more than a decade, my think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, has studied and compared development options for governments and donor organizations operating at a global, regional, and national level.
Even with dozens of compelling investments to choose from, Nobel laureate economists poring over the data found that measures to combat malnutrition were among the most powerful options.
When confronted by such a diplomatic snarl, there are, in reality, only two options: either allow the disputes to boil in their own cauldrons, or lower the temperature on all of the region’s antagonisms before a cataclysmic explosion occurs.
Mexico’s government has several options for ending the violence of narcotics-related organized crime that is devastating the country and corrupting and weakening its political system.
At present, versions of the other options can be seen.
But what if policymakers looked at a range of options simultaneously – comparing bridge-building with spending on school textbooks – to figure out where first to direct any additional money?
BackNext