Sentence examples for alternative to nothing from inspiring English sources

"We're the alternative to nothing".

"Our intent is to be an alternative to nothing, and that's what they're getting right now".

Of the ideas put to him, accelerating the tax reforms looks the best alternative to doing nothing.

Axiomatic now as the only alternative to doing nothing is the use of lethal force backed by the occasional choice of diplomacy as clean-up job.

But the alternative -- to do nothing, or to pass new industry-backed legislation -- would continue to criminalize the everyday behavior of millions.

"There may be something new here, because people are searching for an alternative to doing nothing, or doing the president's plan," said Joseph Cirincione, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

In modern times, we tend to regard this act as a virtue in itself, but sometimes I wonder if the act of conscious memorization we call journalism isn't merely a facile alternative to doing nothing oneself in the face of tragedy and cruelty.

He quotes a Mark Cuban post in October 2010 in which Cuban asserted that "TV is the best cure for boredom...TV is the path of least resistance alternative to doing nothing". Greenfield notes that social games are sort of the mobile boredom cure, available anywhere there's an Internet connection.

The 2009 measure "would be an acceptable alternative to doing nothing," said Sen. Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar), the Republican leader.

Their products, they claim, are a "safe alternative" to smoking, producing nothing more than harmless "water vaper".

I see it as an alternative to the answer "nothing," when you ask your kids "what's going on?" Parents can't fix what we don't know about.