Sentence examples for offered the alternative from inspiring English sources

He was originally convicted of murder three years ago, but law lords ruled the conviction unsafe as jurors had not been offered the alternative of manslaughter.

William Christie and his Arts Florissants have offered the alternative of semistaging and neutral dress, allowing the music its authentic play and letting us imagine a setting closer to our modern hearts.

At first, there was an polite exchange of correspondence with the MoD, during which Thatcher was offered the alternative role of being the first to lay a wreath at the memorial.

For others, the hardship proved only that Greece, like it or not, was in the hands of its creditors and could do little but take whatever terms were being offered — the alternative of default, financial collapse and withdrawal from the euro being unthinkable.

They were offered the alternative of a suspended sentence if they left the state of Virginia, never to return for 25 years.

The Monkees offered the alternative consciousness of the ever-new Beatles, with the joie de vivre of the original Fab Four.

Then it offers the alternative.

Twice a week it offers the alternative of a sequel, focusing on the convent years.

A city that offers the alternative of unpopular spaces is more accessible than a city that only tolerates popular success.

However, the apparent difficulty motivated Bondi, Hoyle, and Gold to offer the alternative theory of steady state cosmology in 1948.

After recovering from the shock of the cold war ending, the rightwing parties are beginning to offer the alternative to the third-way muddle.