Difficult as these changes are to face now, what is the alternative in five years time for our students and our nation if we don't?
The Lib Dems have been crushed, Ukip is finished and Labour has no visible means of coming back as a credible alternative government in five years' time.
"I think come the general election day those UKIP potential voters will come back and see we offer a better alternative [to] another five years of David Cameron".
It would be wasteful to require states to set up exchanges and other elements of the reform only to abandon them for an alternative system three years later.
A lot of this is the price America is paying for the gratuitous way President Bush trashed the Kyoto treaty in 2001, without presenting any alternative for six years.
Since the alternative is two years of Washington gridlock, it is certainly worth the try.
White House officials said they hoped that the House Rules Committee would allow an exception to the rules, so Democrats could offer an alternative costing $100 billion over five years.
Lepage has worked before at the Roundhouse, a venue noted for alternative theatre which reopened five years ago, and when he was working in another circular building in Challons in France, suggested that they had much in common.
This alternative plan would, over five years, gradually reduce the Pentagon's base budget to $472 billion201414 USD).
During the summit we issued a communique that sets out our priorities of protecting rays and sharks across the Caribbean within two years, dramatically increasing the uptake of alternative energy sources within five years, and to starting work as a region on creating enabling policy frameworks.
America's Dodd-Frank act requires their removal, or replacement by "appropriate" alternatives, within two years.
