In either case, the patient admitted to the ICU faced three alternative possibilities: (i) death in the ICU, (ii) recovery and transfer to a general ward or (iii) recovery and discharge home.
He now faces two major questions: Can he eclipse his immediate rival, Newt Gingrich, and become the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney?
Numenius faces two challenges.
Like the Social Darwinists of the post-Civil War era, conservatives such as Beck clearly believe, as William Graham Sumner put it back in 1893, that every society faces only two alternatives: "liberty, survival of the fittest" or "liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest".
But if things go badly, Brazil might eventually face two equally unpalatable alternatives.
European Council President Donald Tusk greeted her arrival with a speech, including the comment: "I've been wondering what that special place in hell looks like, for those who promoted Brexit, without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it out safely". The EU finds itself facing two almost equally awful alternatives: a no-deal Brexit or a porous border between the future UK and the EU.
Some students unable to get into desired courses and programs at public institutions may face only two alternatives: attendance at a for-profit or no postsecondary education at all.
See for example "Advice", the opening poem in Crawford's new collection Full Volume, where life is treated as an examination: "When you are faced with two alternatives / Choose both.
A city man when he becomes the owner of a farm or plantation is faced with two alternatives: he can restore the land to cultivation, exposing himself to a thousand hidden booby traps, which he didn't know were there, or he can leave the land alone and live on the income on a wild duck... View Article By Miranda Carter By Jia Tolentino By Doreen St. Félix By George Packer.
