The phrase "a single alternative to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing one option or choice among others in a particular context.
Example: "In this situation, there is a single alternative to the proposed solution that we should consider."
Alternatives: "one option for" or "a sole substitute for".
Polls suggest that evangelical voters have yet to rally around a single alternative to Mr. Romney.
That's because, were that to happen, the opposition would need to rally around a single alternative to have a chance.
For more than a month, the Gingrich and Santorum campaigns traded calls for the other to withdraw so conservatives could unite behind a single alternative to Mr. Romney.
Both agree it should recommend a single alternative to Britain's first-past-the-post system to give voters "a straight choice" in that referendum.
The government's task has been made more difficult since a report requested by Brown from the communities secretary, Hazel Blears, has failed to come up with a single alternative to regeneration through gambling.
On Saturday, the desire for a single alternative to Mr. Romney got some help from a group of more than 100 evangelicals who gathered in Texas and voted to back Rick Santorum.
Page A12 EVANGELICALS BIDE TIME Conservative Christian leaders have scaled back their goals for a meeting to be held in Texas, acknowledging that they are unlikely to agree on a single alternative candidate to Mitt Romney until after the South Carolina primary.
Conservative Christian leaders have scaled back their goals for a meeting to be held in Texas on Friday and Saturday, acknowledging that they are unlikely to agree on a single alternative candidate to Mitt Romney until after the South Carolina primary on Jan.
For example, claims for local optimality continue to appear that lack a specification of even a single alternative hypothesis to the adaptive hypothesis.
On the other hand, Young et al. (2010) have argued that verifying the CR does not contribute directly to selecting a single alternative goal (i.e., alternatives rankings), but rather to provide a logic-based consistency check on the validity of the pairwise comparison matrices entries.
Celic said there was a risk that the business that left London would not move to a single alternative location but fragment across a number of cities, pushing up costs and even leaving Europe entirely.
