Sentence examples for founded an alternative from inspiring English sources

In the five years since members of the Blue Man Group theatrical troupe founded an alternative pre-K and elementary school in Lower Manhattan, the institution has been its own gypsy, moving from one location to the next.

If history demonstrates, as it does, that Roman Catholics founded an alternative school system for essentially religious reasons and continued to maintain them as an 'integral part of the religious mission of the Catholic Church,' Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602, 616 91 S.Ct.

In a TEDxTeen talk she gave this year, Tavi discussed the process of founding an alternative online space for teenage girls and discovering what feminism means to her, saying: "I realized that feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process".

What's the point in doing robotics, preparing for a future that you don't think is going to happen?" Founding an alternative community is both a desperate and an optimistic act; desperate because it's an extreme vote of no confidence in 'the way things are,' and optimistic because it demonstrates a strong belief that things can -- and will -- get better (otherwise, what's the point of surviving?).

In 2000 the Citizen Action Party (Partido Acción Ciudadana; PAC) was founded as an alternative.

A management consultancy we studied, Caiman Consulting, was founded as an alternative to the larger firms.

The league was founded as an alternative to the NFL that played its games in the spring.

Lalamove was founded as an alternative to traditional delivery services, which often operate like a traditional taxi company with a dispatch center.

Zidisha is a nonprofit website that I founded as an alternative to traditional microlending platforms such as Kiva, whose loans must be passed on to borrowers at high interest rates (~35%) to cover field partners' administrative costs.

Since then, he has founded a center for alternative medicine and is a noted advocate of health freedom.

In 1960 Britain, Norway and Switzerland founded the European Free Trade Association, an alternative to the European Community.