Sentence examples for consistent alternatives from inspiring English sources

The only morally consistent alternatives nowadays are radical self-effacing commitment to opposition, or full-on complaisance.

For Bowerman (1988: 91), this is a stretch too far: Here, the child meets with no consistent alternatives in the adult input, For instance, in contexts where unsqueeze would be appropriate, if it existed, adults might say loosen, ease up, release, let go, remove, and so on.

You may have noticed another characteristic of contrarian climate research – there is no cohesive, consistent alternative theory to human-caused global warming.

The discovery in the 19th century of consistent alternative geometries, however, precipitated a crisis, for it showed that Euclidean geometry, based on seemingly the most intuitively obvious axiomatic assumptions, did not correspond with reality as mathematicians had believed.

The discovery of a consistent alternative geometry that might correspond to the structure of the universe helped to free mathematicians to study abstract concepts irrespective of any possible connection with the physical world.

The existence of consistent alternative geometries shows that the geometry of space cannot be determined a priori.

Observing that Value at Risk (V@R) is not strongly time consistent, Boda and Filar (2006), and Cheridito and Stadje (2009) construct a strongly time consistent alternative to V@R by using a recursive composition procedure.

The social safety net matters to us public health types because -- and the evidence here is compelling and strong -- the one consistent alternative to a reasonable social safety net is an increased number of body bags.

While noting the numerous analyses by Marsh and colleagues of Plant 1, US EPA/IRIS concludes that "…no convincing and consistent alternative hypothesis of causation has been identified" (US EPA, 2010a, pp. 6-18).

What also worked was sending myself a consistent and coherent alternative message.

Using this approach, various methods and strategies can be compared on a fair basis, as long as the scale along both axes is consistent across alternatives.