That, to this

Usage examples of alternative.

Although it was an available alternative, some wholesalers refused to put chicory or any other additives in their coffee.

The alternative, proposed by my Lord Bacon, is to amass evidence, and then to frame an explanation which takes into account all that is known.

He had no other alternative but to dismiss the members, since they plainly declared that they suspended all deliberation until the consummation of the reforms announced by and in the name of the imperial authorities.

It was as if I had been plucked from an almost paradisial world and dropped into an alternative universe where much was the same, but everything was tinged by horror and nightmare.

If either of these alternative definitions is adopted as the definition of junction, the other definition appears as an axiom respecting the character of junction as we know it in nature.

Many hospitals now offer alternative birthing centers for couples who wish to deliver their babies in a more homelike atmosphere without a lot of medical monitoring, but with doctors on hand in case they are needed.

Or the badgeless wizard might be trying to blend the advantages of alternatives 1 and 2 - i.

It was certainly preferable to raping Mrs Biggs, which seemed the only alternative.

By the time they got to their table Bling and the writer had cooked up a number of alternative meets where they might make their pitch to the boy in private -- Bling would follow him to the bathroom.

The only alternative is that, if it does exist, it be something bodiless, either in the objects thus brought together or outside of them.

On the other hand there are not wanting indications of reduction in the Bryophyte sporogonium which make an alternative view of its origin at least possible.

The frustration of waiting for buses is enough to put people off travelling in the evening, particularly with the worry of having to repeat the process on the way home, but there was no alternative if I wanted to find excitement again.

It was an impossible condition, Bute told the King, and Pitt must be asked to propose some other alternative.

Old Mage, the alternative bids fair to be finding the cesspool before finding this gate, by the simple means of falling into it!

String cosmology, as we shall discuss in Chapter 14, is a field very much in its infancy but one that holds great promise, and may very well provide us with this easier-to-swallow alternative to the standard big bang model.