Sentence examples for functioned as an alternative from inspiring English sources

Among snus users, 79.3% said it functioned as an alternative to smoking and 58.4% said it provided a means of coping with smoking restrictions; options not mutually exclusive.

And while the concept may be unique, this isn't the first time this historic church has functioned as an alternative venue.

Here, there was a 'grey zone' between persuasion and manipulation that could be used to make the patient accept treatment and this functioned as an alternative to formal coercion.

Putin hoped the Moscow-dominated Eurasian Union would function as an alternative EU.

According to this model, oxidized PEDOT enhances biofilm formation, evidently by functioning as an alternative dynamic electron acceptor (Fig. 5a c, left electrode).

During the 1960s and 1970s, magazines became an important new site of artistic practice, functioning as an alternative exhibition space for the dematerialized practices of conceptual art.

Rather it functions as an alternative, and – if done well – exceptionally subtle form of literary criticism, seizing on the idiosyncrasies and procedural tricks of a particular writerly style and exaggerating them with the aim of making the reader laugh.

We don't give explanations, we just document this behavior, but one explanation may be that Ethereum is essentially based on smart contracts, distinguishing it from Bitcoin, which is intended to function as an alternative method of payment.

Site-directed mutagenesis combined with substrate engineering demonstrates that Trp260 catalyzes the cleavage of the glycosidic bond by promoting the protonation of the purine base at N-7, hence functioning as an alternative to general acid catalysis.

Televised images of regional leaders from across the country protesting side by side have revived the idea of a Third Front, an assortment of state parties that would function as an alternative to the two national parties, the Congress and B.J.P., which lead the United Progressive Alliance and the National Democratic Alliance, respectively.

Essentially, the app collates all of your financial activity into a single dashboard, which could function as an alternative to simply checking your account balance.