Sentence examples for excluded alternatives from inspiring English sources

It's the most extreme possible case of what the eminent political scientist Walter Dean Burnham calls "the politics of excluded alternatives".

The trouble with invoking neutrality, as many who objected to the program did, is that the next step is to demand "balance" and the equal representation of all viewpoints, precisely the demand made by the "progressive" (read hopelessly confused) officials when they complained that the event as planned excluded "alternative positions" and was therefore "one-sided".

Vayda criticizes that Lansing excluded alternative possibilities of explanations from the beginning.

The second study in Uganda, on HIV-positive persons only, excluded alternative causes of acute febrile illness, such as bacteremia (10 ).

A psychogenic, hysterical origin of the epidemic was established after excluding alternatives such as toxic reaction and encephalitis.

Important questions in the philosophy of logic such as: "why are there so many logics instead of just one?" (or even, instead of none), as for instance, raised in Epstein 1995, can be naturally counterposed by several other questions: if there are indeed many logics, are they excluding alternatives, or are they compatible?

Of these central points, I find only #3 to be compelling enough to strongly exclude alternatives.

When designing the surveys, students should be specific enough to allow for statistical measurement but not so specific as to exclude alternative possibilities.

A series of monumental freestanding windows pose questions about perceptual triage: the way art gives salience to a fragment of reality and excludes alternative versions of it.

An important reason that it was able to establish itself was the appearance of new journals with the same peer review system that had previously served to exclude alternative viewpoints.

Another important role of imaging is to exclude alternative diagnoses for the clinical presentation of patients [1, 5, 7].