Sentence examples for first-rate alternative from inspiring English sources

If texture is your thing, a velvet jacket is a first-rate alternative to traditional wool.

Then state officials sent her to what they described as a first-rate alternative: a nursing home in Andover Township, N.J., which was hours away from her family.

Jim Dieterle, the state director for AARP in New Jersey, called Voice Link a "third-rate" alternative.

The apparent popularity of the idea has left some bristling at the notion of Canada as a second-rate alternative.

"Yes," he agrees, "because I do think that the scientific worldview is so wonderful and poetically uplifting that the children who don't get it and are being fed a second-rate alternative are being short-changed".

The meaner the industry is over what people can do with the movies they pay to download, the more the studios' own services will be a second-rate alternative to piracy.

Ho Tram's effective tax rate, less than half of Macau's 39% also enables it to offer better incentives to junket promoters and players, as well as presenting a first rate alternative to Macau while mainland players are waiting to be eligible for their next visa there or a place where they may avoid China's anti-corruption spotlight.

The more surprising takeaway here is that GTA V in this instance isn't a second-rate alternative to simulation software created for the purpose of testing autonomous driving software – it proves an incredibly advanced testing platform, because of the care taken in its open-world game design.

And worse, the schools could become second-rate alternatives for poor, rural areas.

Apprenticeships or school-leaver programmes are purely an alternative to the university route to employment, not a second rate option.

Labour will win the election by offering the alternative of a first-rate - that is to say unvarnished - Gordon Brown.