Sentence examples for alternative winning from inspiring English sources

With its support for traditional families and its bracing talk on crime and immigration, it is selling itself as a conservative party of the kind the CDU was before Mrs Merkel took charge.This message worked in Saxony and has now done so in Thuringia and Brandenburg, with the Alternative winning 9.8%, 10.6% and 12.2% of the vote, respectively.

But if Alternative won enough seats, for the first time, an out-and-out sceptical voice would get a big platform - and a vote - in debates on Europe.

The Eurosceptic Five-Star movement came second in Italy and the anti-euro Alternatives won seven seats in Germany.

For example, earning no money when the alternative is losing money produces a greater response in the caudate than when the alternative is winning money (Nieuwenhuis et al., 2005).

It is slightly easier to imagine a government losing a confidence vote and no alternative government winning one.

Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, there will not be another general election until 2020 unless one of two things happens: two-thirds of the Commons votes for an election, or the government loses a vote of confidence and 14 days pass without an alternative government winning a vote of confidence.

This idea is confirmed by the fact that our observations correspond to the prediction of game-theory modeling that mathematically illustrates that when a highly valuable resource is contested and the alternative to winning the fight is poor, individuals should fight to the death irrespective of their own or their opponents' fighting ability [14].

Most notably, an alternative that is majority-dispreferred to every other alternative may win under plurality rule: if 34% of the voters rank x above y above z, 33% rank y above z above x, and 33% rank z above y above x, plurality rule ranks x above each of y and z, while pairwise majority voting would rank y above z above x (y is the Condorcet winner).

It's quite useful to have an alternative to "win a medal".

In local elections the Greens increased their share of the vote in Hesse to 11%, while the Green Alternative List won 13.5% of the vote in Hamburg.

But a convincing and genuine alternative that wins back Green, SNP and even some Ukip voters has to be offered, not more and more cuts.