Sentence examples for a principal alternative from inspiring English sources

A principal alternative view to the Red Queen hypothesis is that sex arose, and is maintained, as a process for repairing DNA damage, and that genetic variation is produced as a byproduct.

In the absence of a satisfactory external/environmental explanation, the principal alternative is that the incidence peaks may have been precipitated by programmed internal events.

The principal alternative methods are: a) informal report of cases observed in clinics over a period of time, and b) retrospective studies which involve speakers who are fluent self-reporting that they had a stutter in the past.

The Google-Firefox deal, first made in 2004 and since renewed repeatedly, had for years been a relationship of mutual strengths: when Firefox was the principal alternative to Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer, Google was able to leverage its popularity to bring more people to its search engine.

A system that was tolerated for decades, during which the principal alternative was the Italian Communist Party, became increasingly intolerable during the nineteen-eighties as the Cold War threat receded, and after the Berlin Wall fell, Italians increasingly rebelled.

Turkey fears an economically and politically isolated Iran, which supplies it with its principal alternative to Russian energy.

"The principal alternative to Santander's mainly share-funded bid would be a similarly denominated offer from HBOS itself.

Senator Kennedy was the principal alternative candidate.

Therefore, Serotta adopted the principal alternative defense - 10..

When exploring the formation of circuits, scientists have focused on two principal alternative theories.

Many areas of the Arabian Peninsula have been proposed as the site of Ophir; the principal alternative locations overseas are East Africa and India.