Sentence examples for alternative devices from inspiring English sources
To overcome this disadvantage, alternative devices, such as election by an absolute majority and proportional representation, are used.
Alternative devices such as the bonded warehouse and associated systems are used in some large seaports (e.g., London and Amsterdam).
Members of the Federal Communications Commission could not agree on a set-top box proposal that requires cable operators to provide their shows and movies on alternative devices rather than just on a cable box.
Eric Bridges, the executive director of the American Council of the Blind, told me that he hadn't heard of it or of the various alternative devices, like the vOICe.
Even if the spare part shipped up from Earth does not work, Mr. Shireman said, there are enough supplies of alternative devices for collecting urine that the station crew will be able to stay on board the station until the next supply vehicle arrives in September.
With the coming of steam-powered engines to propel ships, the use of sails, rigging, and knots was much reduced, a trend that has continued even on modern sailboats because of the use of special cleats, winches, and other alternative devices to control the rigging.
An alternative device would hurtle particles in straight lines along a tunnel that would be more than 50km long.
An alternative device that uses solar panels or muscle power to charge a phone's battery could make an appropriate gift for a camper or environmentalist.
Or potentially it could be imbedded in a TV set with an Ethernet connection, or on a mobile phone, or in some alternative device that might come out in the future.
Tenrehte Technologies, a company based near Rochester, has developed an alternative device, called the Picowatt, that lets people use their smartphones or laptop computers, for example, to control lighting and appliances like air-conditioners.
But if there is some kind of disruption in Blackberry service, many people may have to turn to an alternative device.
