Sentence examples for alternative to accepting from inspiring English sources

Start with the concept of a straight line, and there is no alternative to accepting it as the shortest.

The hope is that more births will be an alternative to accepting millions of immigrants from beyond Europe.Yet few believe that the plan will work.

Tragically, akin to Nauru having no economic alternative to accepting refugees from Australia, PNG is placed in exactly the same position by a regional bully that contributes to both these nations lying in ruin.

It follows that there is no alternative to accepting the members of a religious group as themselves the only legitimate source of the decision to accept their leaders as authorized by God.

He never really grasped that the war was bound to be something much bigger than a conflict between nationalisms; that it would leave, when the smoke cleared, no alternative to accepting liberal democracy as the only guarantee of liberty; and that in liberty there could be no such thing as a universally shared "perennial philosophy".

That extra uncertainty was not enough to justify an extra 2.6 percent in cash payouts, I.S.S. said".The alternative to accepting the buyout offer is to continue holding equity in a publicly traded Dell, with continued exposure to the risks and rewards of ownership," I.S.S. wrote.

He will not accept any academy or free school proposal which plans to teach creationism in the science curriculum or as an alternative to accepted scientific theories.

To offer an alternative to accepted religious dogma weighed heavily on him.

Television pictures from north Africa have reminded many that there are alternatives to accepting one's fate.The most obvious impact of the north African uprising will be felt in the neighbouring Sahel states.

In some areas of practical ethics, the lack of decent alternatives to accepting a bad offer, a so-called no-choice situation (Wertheimer 1987, e.g., p. 13), is said to make us forced or compelled to choose the offer (Cohen 1979), or to undermine voluntariness otherwise.

"They really have no alternative but to accept lower wages," he said.