Sentence examples for alternative imported from inspiring English sources

Who could have predicted that the fall of Romanian communism would be hastened by state television's decision to replace The Onedin Line – the BBC saga of mutton-chopped mercantilists in 1860s Liverpool – with a dreary alternative imported from North Korea?

At best, it will take time for alternative imports or increased domestic agricultural production to make up for the shortfall, and the immediate result is sure to be higher prices.

Since Syo1 is not an essential protein, it seems evident that alternative import routes for Rpl5 and Rpl11 exist.

Conversations here on the streets of Saga as well as with decision-makers in Tokyo reveal a nation torn between the dangers exposed by the Fukushima accident and the need of a resource-poor nation to keep its only serious energy alternative to imported coal and oil.

With China expected to surpass the United States in the number of all vehicles on the road by as early as 2020, the government-run utilities see it as their job to provide an alternative to imported oil as a way to power several hundred million cars, trucks and buses.

BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin said this was bad news for the government, given that it wanted to encourage shale gas as an alternative to imported gas from Russia.

Sorghum, a cereal which belongs to the family Graminae was first used as a brewing adjunct during the Second World War and is now used in most breweries as locally available alternative to imported barley malt.

The use of geothermal energy in Iceland has developed in sync with time, as what was once a cumbersome necessity has become an economically and technologically feasible alternative to imported fossil-based energy sources.

Initially, as an alternative to imported oil and coal, which were too costly for widespread use, geothermal power has become one of the country's important assets, providing inexpensive space heating, facilitating locally grown vegetables and flowers all year round and even making the outdoor swimming pool the most frequented gathering place nationwide.

From 1953 until the 1980s the local beer market was dominated by the large national brewers, with the alternative being imported beer from Mexico.

Despite high spending on solar power over the years, the only real alternatives are imported natural gas or dirty coal.