The phrase "alternatives to doing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different options or methods for accomplishing a task or activity.
Example: "We need to consider alternatives to doing the project in the traditional way."
Alternatives: "options instead of doing" or "substitutes for doing".
Now, as a new Palestinian uprising and the crumbling of sanctions against Iraq attest, there are alternatives to doing America's bidding on all the key regional questions -- and Arab leaders are at least exploring them.
The problem with working on a computer, after all, is that computers provide so many appealing alternatives to doing anything useful: you can procrastinate for hours, checking e-mail, browsing social-networking sites or keeping up with Twitter.Keeping such diversions at bay involves some technological jiu-jitsu, using the power of one piece of software as a defence against distraction from others.
"There are golf clubs that are struggling, so there is some logic behind clubs looking at alternatives to do something with their land or developers looking to focus on acquiring clubs," Mitchell Rechler said.
"The alternative to doing something is to allow these treasures to be compromised, and that's unthinkable".
Bowen ropes in an old joke to illustrate his point that we complain not to change things but as an alternative to doing so.
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.
"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.
They should offer a new way of going to university and not an alternative to doing so, providing a real choice to those put off by higher fees and longer term debt.
