The phrase "alternative given" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an option or choice that has been provided or presented.
Example: "In the discussion, the alternative given was to pursue a more sustainable approach to energy consumption."
Alternatives: "provided option" or "suggested alternative".
While I can't disagree entirely with Mr. Smollar's criticism, there probably was no alternative, given the deadline situation.
In a statement, the current license holder, Jennifer Oz LeRoy, chief executive of Tavern, said that the filing was "our only alternative given the current situation".
Though Farah has reservations about "electing MPs and president on a clan-based formula", he believes there is no present alternative, given years of war.
"In the marketplace there will be an increasing need for an alternative given the shifts that have taken place recently," Mr. Sorrell said in the conference call.
Then there's Ed Miliband, who could seize the opportunity to launch a real political alternative, given the surge of smaller parties like the Greens and Ukip.
Bauer "had no alternative given the overwhelming evidence," Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Wiesenthal Center, said Friday by telephone from Los Angeles.
Mr. Akerson finds it almost laughable that he and his wife have not been able to figure out an alternative, given that both of them are technically adept.
Even if it opposes Mr. Hariri, Hezbollah may have difficulty in finding an alternative, given his support within Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community, one of the country's largest.
Mr. Turow sees risks but believes it may be the only alternative, given campaign money's undermining of the one-man-one-vote rationale of American democracy.
I have only contempt for the Labour right, but I recognise that it must be difficult for it to formulate a programmatic alternative, given the paucity of concrete policy generated by Corbyn and his shadow cabinet in their first year.
