Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative - the person who offered an alternative, for example, is. . . Paul Ryan.
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.
If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.
What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them.
To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative
When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.
Humans arose. . . as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness.
Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative?
Nonviolent Peaceforce. . . is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers. . . This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war.
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.
I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.
Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.
The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments
Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.