Sentence examples for Unpleasant alternative from inspiring English sources

For mass transit to work, he writes, cities must not only achieve a threshold of mixed-use density, but driving must become an exceedingly unpleasant alternative.

Ultimately, he hopes that Verizon's shareholders will see the logic of separating its wireline and wireless operations, which would make it easier for him to win control of Verizon Wireless.The unpleasant alternative would be to mount a hostile takeover of Verizon the sort of thing that Sir Chris might have relished, but out of keeping with Mr Sarin's more measured style.

In addition to this, capsule endoscopy offers a less unpleasant alternative to traditional endoscopy, lowering the threshold for preventive periodic screening procedures, where the large majority of patients are actually healthy.

For the dealer, the even more unpleasant alternative would have been to dribble the bonds out $10 million or $100 million at a time, possibly forcing the price down with each trade.

"I understand he is facing unpleasant alternatives.

To be "between Scylla and Charybdis" means to be caught between two equally unpleasant alternatives.

The government is then confronted with a choice between two unpleasant alternatives.

And so, he said, he feels stuck between two unpleasant alternatives: wanting police protection yet resenting its consequences.

It does not simply refer to a difficult decision, but to a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives.

There are two unpleasant alternatives: either Mr. Bush knew he was not telling the truth, or he has a capacity for politically motivated self-deception that is terrifying in the post-9/11 world.

Furthermore, they overlook the unpleasant alternatives to a Sanders presidency: a hawkish Hillary Clinton or a rabidly militaristic Republican in the White House.