The phrase "alternative except" is not correct and usable in written English.
It seems to be a confusion of terms, as "alternative" and "except" do not typically work together in this way.
Example: "There is no alternative except to follow the rules."
Alternatives: "other than" or "besides".
Which leaves me with no alternative except to post this:.
I don't see any other alternative except to revisit the upper-income tax breaks".
You leave us no alternative except to pursue policies based on our national interests regardless of their impact on you".
They let go, piece by piece, until finally they felt that there was no alternative except a revolution.
"There's no alternative except negotiations," Rafiq Hamdouna, a former Fatah leader who heads an organization of Palestinians who have served time in Israeli jails, told me last month.
Parents who believe they have no alternative except to spank their misbehaving children do not need finger-wagging lectures from clinicians.
MCP ranked above the four Gavins Point (GP) alternatives except with the pro-fish and wildlife weights.
That is, the sentence is ambiguous; and yet we humans seem to instantaneously rule out all the alternatives except the first (and presumably the intended) one.
On the thorniest of foreign-policy problems — from Pakistan to Syria — his campaign has offered no alternatives except a set of tough-guy slogans and an oft-repeated faith in "American exceptionalism".
Ordered probability models with either logit or probit function is commonly applied in crash injury severity analyses; however, its critical assumption that the slope coefficients do not vary over different alternatives except the cut-off points is usually too restrictive.
Even conservative analyses of the situation on the Korean Peninsula conclude that the United States does not have a lot of great policy alternatives except to tighten sanctions a wee bit more, accelerate the deployment of missile defenses on the peninsula, and pledge support to regional allies.
