The internment policy alternated between tragedy and farce.
In the following months, the American policy alternated between tough talk in public — vows that the Administration wouldn't be "blackmailed," or even meet with North Korean leaders — and private efforts, through third parties, to open an indirect line of communication with Pyongyang.
The country's fiscal policy alternates between "giveaway" and "takeaway", says Gene Steuerle, a Treasury official in the 1970s and 1980s and now a scholar at the Urban Institute, a think-tank.
The management maintained a policy of alternating live stage shows with B movies (allegedly to clear the house).
While wondering at the logic of a mid-afternoon music policy that alternated Doves and Elbow with blustering "rawk", I drank a Volcano IPA – more a light, zippy, tropical South Island pale, to me – from Barney's, a local micro based at the arts centre and Fringe venue, Summerhall.
She rated classical and intuitionistic mathematics as equally good frameworks and adopted a policy of alternating preference that meticulously respected the equal cognitive standing she accorded to classical and intuitionistic mathematics.
The German Grand Prix returned to Hockenheim after the 2011 German Grand Prix was held at the Nürburgring, in line with the event's policy of alternating between venues.
As per Admiralty policy in alternating Two-Speed Destroyer Sweep (TSDS) minesweeping gear and ASDIC (sonar) capability between destroyer flotillas, the C class lacked ASDIC and were designed to carry only six depth charges.
Washington's carrot-and-stick policy of alternate engagement and ostracism, dating back to the Clinton administration, has patently not worked.
Green variations also include some Northern towns' policy of "alternate demolition", where the clearing of every other row of barrack-like terraces has doubled the gardens and open space of those left.
