Sentence examples for alternative presents from inspiring English sources

But for better or worse the F.B.I. is the agency that has to take the lead in domestic security -- not necessarily because it has shown striking success in the past, but because no institutional alternative presents itself.

He is a trifle two-faced on this score; he frowns on hostile raids but does them when no alternative presents itself; he criticizes serial acquirers but heaps praise on his client Geneen, whose board was wont to rubber-stamp five acquisitions in a single session.

Each alternative presents its own unique and serious side effect profile.

Ford's alternative presents a system designed to be used without driver involvement, and with externally mounted cameras that also wouldn't be impeded by windows or a car's internal structure.

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Throughout the first game I had intended to play her as someone who wants to be an idealist but who nevertheless takes the cruel, pragmatic route when no alternative presents itself, but the game kept offering her the chance to take the higher moral road and still achieve victory.

It's an alternative present, her great-niece explained.

With a whoosh, the X-Men go forward to the past, or possibly sideways to an alternative present.

In a weird future, or alternative present, all those who find themselves without a partner, for any reason, must attend a remedial hotel course with other singles.

She is a woman who is visited with unwanted visions, whether of the past or the future or some alternative present she often can't tell.

So we've had an alternative present that sees Hitler accidentally ruling over the east London borough, or the superheroes' lives being controlled by the words and actions of a cartoonist loner.