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How to use the word alternative in a Sentence? Page #19

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The subsequent rush of Western businesses to enter the Iranian market informed Iranian consumers that soon there will be alternative supplies of consumer goods priced more competitively and with a substantially higher quality and post-sale services.

Mehrdad Emadi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I encourage other Republican presidential candidates to consider doing the same so that the voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive, conservative alternative to the current front-runner, this is fundamentally important to the future of our party, and, more important, the future of the country.

Scott Walker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is a sign of the times, equity markets are to a large degree closed... Miners are looking for alternatives. Unfortunately this is an alternative of last resort.

Andrew Kaip

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Equity markets are to a large degree closed... Miners are looking for alternatives. Unfortunately this is an alternative of last resort.

Andrew Kaip

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They've suffered three days of suspension. They've been in alternative school for a week. They're excluded from playing football for the rest of the season. I think that's enough. They've apologized. They are very sorry. They didn't mean to do this.

Northside Independent School District

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think they paid the appropriate punishment already, they've suffered three days of suspension. They've been in alternative school for a week. They're excluded from playing football for the rest of the season. I think that's enough. They've apologized. They are very sorry. They didn't mean to do this.

Jesse Hernandez

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The better alternative to promote growth and hiring is to create a healthy investment environment … and how you achieve that is through infrastructure.

Humberto Reynolds

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Daniel Webster is a very viable alternative.

Thomas Massie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are starting to see some instances where banks are being put in a fairly difficult position of either following their money, finding an alternative capital source or calling time on companies. That is going to drive some transactions in the market.

Jo Clark

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is an alternative to the imposition of a cloak of secrecy over what has happened in Charleston.

Jay Bender

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's very difficult to campaign in Kostroma region, so that's why we were allowed to participate here, but we have a very simple message. We want to show people there's an alternative.

Ilya Yashin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Many plant-based drugs are not found in large quantities in nature and are difficult to make in the lab, mimicking the way nature makes these molecules is a promising alternative, but to do that we need to find the genes. This can be a major challenge because plant genomes can be very large and genes are hard to find.

Stanford University

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Mimicking the way nature makes these molecules is a promising alternative, but to do that we need to find the genes. This can be a major challenge because plant genomes can be very large and genes are hard to find.

Elizabeth Sattely

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Ask them the real question: do you want the euro with the bailout conditions because that's what the euro goes with or do you want an alternative strategy, an anti-bailout strategy, with your own national currency?

Costas Lapavitsas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But there is no alternative. What he talks about is basically fluff, there is no alternative. What is the alternative? To have us alone? Have the international community walk away? We have negotiated this in good faith. It hasn't taken months. It's taken years. Years. This is the diplomatic breakthrough that will go down in history as one of the biggest diplomatic moves in the history of the world.

Harry Reid

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is no such thing as a better deal. There is no plausible alternative. There is no better deal.

Harry Reid

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Arming and funding Iran while simultaneously providing them a pathway to a nuclear arsenal is not an act of peace, it's not, as President Obama claims, the only alternative to war. It is madness.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Convincing parents that manufacturing is not just a dirty dying business and is a viable alternative to an expensive college degree with no guarantee of work at the end of it is a major challenge we face.

Dick Gilchrist

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Even though the Minsk agreement is not being fulfilled, they( the government) have no alternative to it. The only alternative is a resumption of military action.

Taras Berezovets of Berta Communications

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Anti-gun advocates are clearly frustrated. They want guns banned, but they have been thwarted in the past, so they are looking for alternative means.

Erich Pratt

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We thought about whether it should be in live action or animated but (what) really called us to action was the true story of a priest who was an exemplary person and who dedicated all his time to try to preach using alternative means, max & Me.

Producer Pablo Jose Barroso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We will be raising our oil production at any cost and we have no other alternative, if Iran's oil production hike is not done promptly, we will be losing our market share permanently.

Iran Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is room in the world for strong dollar and strong gold, and strong gold is an alternative to emerging market currency.

Jeffrey Rhodes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Greeks have no alternative. They know the new package will stop immediately if commitments are not met. Even if a new government was elected it couldn’t change anything, if the Greeks don’t implement the reforms they will no longer receive a euro of aid. It’s up to them to decide.

Michael Fuchs

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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