The phrase "alternative efforts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different methods or approaches to achieve a goal or solve a problem.
Example: "In light of the challenges we faced, we decided to explore alternative efforts to improve our project outcomes."
Alternatives: "different approaches" or "various methods".
Alternative efforts around the same time centered around repurposing prior art as a means of expressing complex thoughts.
As an alternative, efforts have been focused on ultrafine crystals, i.e. polycrystals with a grain size in the range of 500 nm to 1 μm, in which "growth twins" (twins introduced inside the grain before deformation) act as barriers against dislocation movement, thus increasing the strength in a similar way as nanocrystals but without significant loss of ductility.
For some of the most organized and better funded alternative efforts, Rio also afforded a chance to attract media attention and help.
The results of this study also imply that stem bark and leaf extracts of L. paniculata have no clinically relevant antifungal activity; however, in combination with an antibiotic for evaluating the interference of the fungal resistance profile, a significant synergistic effect for C. tropicalis is indicated, representing interesting alternative efforts in combating candidiasis.
Benchmark design arises as an alternative effort inducement mechanism vis-a-vis relaxing portfolio constraints.
July 2009: In late July, the GOP-alternative effort briefly falls into contradictions.
General Electric, with its Ecomagination campaign, and BP, with its alternative energy efforts, are just two of the large public companies using environmentally friendly policies as a selling point.
Victor is, in a way, the counterpart to Greaves himself, the man without a structure, the energetic person left to his own devices; his rage is the alternative to efforts to construct a better organized, more supple societal order.
"All that is part of investing in a credible alternative to efforts that we don't believe will resolve the conflict," said Benjamin J. Rhodes, the president's deputy national security adviser.
Medicare's actuary is miffed: "Although the Office of the Actuary agrees that Congress is very likely to override the physician fee reduction, the assumption conflicts with the Office's professional judgment that, as in all past years, the determination should be based on current law, not an assumed alternative".Other efforts to find savings in health care may be similarly fruitless.
