Sentence examples for a prudent alternative from inspiring English sources
The French official explained that the request for American refueling aircraft was submitted only as a prudent alternative if the mission continues for longer than anticipated — or in case there is a significant military crisis requiring the immediate dispatch of additional French aircraft.
This involves analysis and definition of what might constitute a "feasible and prudent alternative". It also provides a primer on environmental impact legislation and its effects on public works projects and allows for discussion of the conflicts among environmentalists, community groups and governments seeking to site infrastructure improvements.
Mr. Obama, advisers say, will seek to mobilize Americans behind his argument that his plan is a balanced and more economically prudent alternative than to simply allow automatic across-the-board spending cuts to take effect and all Bush-era income-tax rate cuts to expire.
(h Economically feasible and prudent alternative route means a route either within or outside an area that is based on sound engineering practices and is economically practicable, but does not necessarily mean the least costly alternative route.
The ACE brought the suit against Armbrister on the grounds that the project violated section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act of 1966, which requires that all environmental impacts of a project be assessed and that a project "[has] no feasible and prudent alternative".
He noted that preservation has proved to be a prudent fiscal alternative to the higher tax increases usually required for additional services like roads and schools that development brings.
He then served as army chief of staff (1955 59), in which post he was an early advocate of the strategic doctrine of "flexible response," which emphasized the maintenance of conventional infantry forces as a prudent wartime alternative to the all-out use of nuclear weapons.
Despite the obvious drawbacks, the prudent alternative is Interstate 95.
The proposed revisions would undo the most vital protection: forbidding highway construction at historic sites "unless there is no feasible and prudent alternative".
The site was deemed eligible for the National Registry of Historic Places, which meant it could not be disturbed or destroyed unless there was no prudent alternative to the road project, Ms. Harper said.
