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How to use the word alternatives in a Sentence? Page #10

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The price was the right one. Alternatives we discussed revolved around reservoir imaging and not acquisition issues.

Monday Pilenko

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The problem of this election is there is actually no choice for voters, many people will choose Abe as a kind of negative choice. There are no alternatives.

Yu Uchiyama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

These drugs are being marketed and sold as legal alternatives to marijuana, cocaine, meth and heroin.

John Scherbenske of the DEA

Found on CNN
9 years ago

While markets are fairly valued, when you consider the alternatives equities are still the best asset.

Matthew Keator

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This isn't enough to derail the rally we've been on, because while markets are fairly valued, when you consider the alternatives equities are still the best asset.

Matthew Keator

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Draghi all but announced that the central bank will step up monetary easing soon. Mr Maybe has become Mr Definitely, We think the ECB would exhaust other alternatives before moving to sovereign QE.

Nick Kounis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Archibald MacLeish

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10 years ago

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.

Paul Feyerabend

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13 years ago

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms"

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13 years ago

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Blaise Pascal

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13 years ago

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.

John F. Kennedy, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

William A. Foster

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13 years ago

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

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14 years ago

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Maya Angelou

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14 years ago

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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14 years ago

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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14 years ago

Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control

Joan B. Campbell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier

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14 years ago

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

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14 years ago

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abbe' D'Allanival

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14 years ago

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