Sentence examples for second-best solutions from inspiring English sources

"We are in a world of second-best solutions", says Anderson.

Human beings have no problem choosing second-best solutions to dilemmas in other areas of their lives, so there is nothing inherently ignoble about casting a vote in this way too.

And the experience of cutting sulphur emissions in America in the 1990s argues that second-best solutions can give way to the best: regulations on power stations were eventually superseded by a successful cap-and-trade scheme that cleared the stuff out of America's air.Europe's carmakers, of course, are not best pleased with the commission's plan.

While existing second-best solutions are incentive compatible, the associated payment functions are difficult to implement in real-world settings.

Knowledge should not be locked-up in order to maintain the profitability of obsolete products or second-best solutions.

But the technology is too expensive to justify rewiring most houses, so telcos focus on second-best solutions such as cable and copper wire.

But printouts of digital material are a second-best solution.

A second-best solution would be another partial, framework agreement.

If I can't get the best solution, I have to find the second-best solution.

In some ways, government officials acknowledge, the effort represents a second-best solution.

So others support a higher minimum wage as a second-best solution.