The phrase "alternative to supporting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing different options or methods that can replace or serve as substitutes for providing support.
Example: "We need to consider an alternative to supporting the current project if we want to allocate our resources more effectively."
Alternatives: "substitute for supporting" or "replacement for supporting".
In any case, he said, the United States has no real alternative to supporting Mr. Musharraf.
What is the alternative to supporting Morsi and the Brotherhood and urging them to be inclusive in the new Egypt?
They have created a political landscape in which the only alternative to supporting authoritarian rule is risking their overthrow by radical opponents.
The alternative to supporting the adjustment may be less palatable, such as more bail-outs, more debt defaults or bigger transfers.Then there is the question of the longer-term future for Europe.
Universal proxy cards may provide a strategic advantage to public companies in majority- or full-board proxy contests by permitting stockholders to mix-and-match company and activist director nominees as an alternative to supporting an activist's change in control slate.
An interesting alternative to support the IPTV service delivery relies on the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm to distribute and push the streaming effort towards the network edge.
Moreover, it is shown that these loss functions can be seen as an alternative to support vector machines (SVM) classifiers for low-dimensional feature spaces.
This issue will be a real test; does the public require a fully worked out alternative to support opposition, or can the Conservatives keep the heat on Labour whilst not actually cooking with gas?
After initial medical stabilization, in many centers, mechanical assist devices are an increasingly used alternative to support circulation and allow recovery of stunned or hibernating myocardium if clinical signs of recovery are absent [33 35].
