Sentence examples for alternative settling from inspiring English sources

It set us thinking about the books that speak to the predicament of youthful instability, that period in which one tries to follow one's heart wherever it may lead because the alternative — settling down — conjures visions of oneself plopped in a desk chair or on a couch, literally settling down into one's increasingly flabby body, as the brain slowly collapses in on itself.

In "The success that failed" (Views, Feb. 15), Roger Cohen erred in presenting the Palestinians as being split over just two alternatives: settling the rivalry of two nationalisms by territorial compromise or regarding the conflict as one of colonialism "whose end result," in Cohen's words, "must be the expulsion of the Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel, as Hamas contends".

Last year Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's president, negotiated a currency swap with China, as an alternative to settling her dispute with foreign bondholders.

Sure, cut-up vegetables are a good alternative to settling for processed or carryout food, with unknown quantities of fat and salt.

Holistic admissions policies yielding more diverse student bodies can be found at elite high schools in New York City and around the United States, but there is no evidence that the New York explicitly rejected these alternatives in settling on the SHSAT for its specialised high schools.

All-metal self-supported cathodes, especially porous noble metals, are attractive alternatives for settling the issue of carbon- and binder-decomposition in Li O2 batteries.

For several regulatory functions there was insufficient evidence regarding the aggregated effect of multiple regulators; in these cases, we tested several alternatives before settling on the function that most faithfully recapitulated biological results.

Any alternative plan settled on by H&F and Capco would be subject to the policies of whoever the next mayor is, which provides an incentive for delay.

And if the alternative to just settling is playing erotic board games, is settling such a bad thing?

"If you have only a few alternatives, you're settling for the best of what's available," Professor Iyengar said.

Seeking an alternative, he threw himself into the world of alternative health and, after settling on a 90percentt fruit and vegetable diet, found that his condition had cleared without medicine.