Sentence examples for poor alternative from inspiring English sources

Growing fast is a poor alternative to growing up.

I feel that equity release is also a poor alternative to other income-paying investments.

Or maybe in a less ominous connotation, simply a poor alternative to the subway.

It would look like a poor alternative to the EADS transaction and would carry more risks to jobs in Britain.

As a practical example take the oft-misunderstood tank D.Va, sometimes seen as a poor alternative to the Reinhardts and Winstons.

The NAS authors stress that geoengineering is a poor alternative to reducing the carbon emissions that cause climate change (known as mitigation).

There's a degree of "Monti-mania" in Italy right now which is not surprising given the very poor alternatives on offer.

According to a report published last year by the Child Poverty Action Group, spending on food in poor families is often cut to avoid debt or to meet other essential payments such as gas, electricity or rent.Sally Cavanagh of Sustain, a food charity, highlights a further problem: healthy foods are more expensive than nutritionally poor alternatives.

Nintendo needs to stop trying to re-imagine how people play video game systems, because all of their solutions have been very poor alternatives to buttons.

Instead, it would suggest that many voters felt they had no other choice, given an uncharacteristically poor Republican alternative.

Since no one these days actually wants to give up the villas in Tuscany or be poor, the alternative is to read books and magazine articles about how simple life would be if only it were not so complicated.