Sentence examples for inefficient alternative from inspiring English sources

For geeks who prefer "text sex" to physical encounters, e-mail to "facemail," e-commerce to "bricks and mortar" shopping, the human body is nothing but "wetware" -- a fragile, inefficient alternative to the shiny hardware of their computers.

These will include the accumulation of adequate carbohydrate reserves and the ability to switch to alcoholic fermentation as an alternative, albeit inefficient, alternative source of energy to Krebs cycle-based aerobic respiration (Crawford, 2003).

As such, the rank order presented using this method is independent of inefficient alternatives.

Obata and Ishii (2003) introduced a method to discriminate efficient alternatives using ranked voting data without considering information about inefficient alternatives.

Foroughi and Tamiz (2005) extended the model presented by Obata and Ishii (2003) in order to obtain the rank order for both efficient and inefficient alternatives.

We feel strongly that Twilio's success in enabling developers to build creative and engaging applications in an area with clunky, inefficient alternatives — e.g. communications — is a trend we are going to see more and more of in the future. .

A. The present policies of subsidizing and mandating inefficient alternatives is counterproductive.

He takes no account of the fact that demands on the health service are growing year on year; general practice is already in crisis, and if we continue at this pace the whole of the NHS will be in special measures because of a misplaced ideology that public services are overfunded, inefficient, and alternative care is the way forward.

It will be thought of as inefficient if an alternative (e.g., a trucking service) can also meet customer needs but at a lower cost.

Expelling market forces from the internal economy of a corporation has never been efficient, just less inefficient than the alternative.

Natural graphite is classified as a supply risk material, and the artificial graphitization process is extremely inefficient, so an alternative method of making graphite for use as an anode material is highly desired.