Sentence examples for alternative reason from inspiring English sources

The USCG cited topside damage as a reasonable alternative reason for the Fitzgerald sinking and surmised that damage to the fence rail and vents was possibly caused by a heavy floating object such as a log.

Keith Graham (Letters, 21 October) suggests an alternative reason for Patrick Gordon Walker's 1964 Smethwick defeat.

The second, alternative reason for making this a campaign theme is that Gordon Brown is prepared to trade freedoms for votes, in which case the moral "dividing line" is between integrity and cynicism.

Mulligan said Hasan appeared to be taking on a "tried and true" defense strategy of not contesting the facts but rather offering an alternative reason about why they occurred.

An alternative reason is put forward by the head of a leading investment bank (not the underwriter), who contends that the current high valuation for exchanges is no different from the current high valuation for top-tier New York apartments.

Although Levin and Buntin didn't provide a definitive alternative reason, they pointed to a series of structural changes in the health-care industry, including changes in payment rates to doctors and other providers, and a shift away from in-patient care, which is very expensive.

Privately, others speculated on alternative reasons for the last-minute change of royal heart.

In 2012, Tennessee passed a law encouraging teachers to present alternative reasons for climate change, even though those views are not supported by science.

In case after case, judges excuse blatantly discriminatory comments as mere "stray remarks" and strain to find alternative reasons that older workers were fired.

7Several DOJ ancestral groups are excluded from our sample for alternative reasons.

Thus alternative reasons for the enhanced deposition rate during c-HiPIMS deposition of metal films are discussed.