Sentence examples for is only one alternative from inspiring English sources

There is only one alternative, he said: "Pray to San Isidro," the patron saint of farmers, to make it rain.

If that recipe does not work anymore, there is only one alternative, speed reduction.

There is only one alternative to being rationally self-interested: sacrificing one's proper interests, either for the sake of other people (which she equates with altruism) or for the sake of the supernatural (which she calls mysticism) (1982a, ch. 7).

So there is only one alternative - to allow them - and then the question arises of the extent to which we have to measure out this freedom.

In the meantime, there's only one alternative: start them young.

The characters talked so well because they had no other resources; the comedy struck because, often, there was only one alternative to laughing, an unacceptable and unbearable one.

The only exception was when the most frequent border was confirmed by > 10 cDNAs and there was only one alternative border evidenced by a single cDNA.

Firstly, we showed in our analysis that, under certain assumed constraints, there is only one plausible alternative vaccine schedule to the current one, an interesting finding that had not been explicitly recognised by colleagues at DH prior to this work.

For example, in the case of a three-tip cladogram (A–(B C)), there is only one such alternative to the topology observed: the two sister tips (B and C) can be collapsed into one, and the third tip (A) can be shown with a higher resolution ((A1 A2)–BC).

The self-controlled design used in this analysis is only one of several alternative approaches that can be considered.

But the Darwinian theory is only one of many alternative theories that seek to explain ordered states in nature.