Sentence examples for the only reasonable alternative from inspiring English sources

Judge Rakoff said a retrial was the only reasonable alternative.

State Senator John Whitmire, chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee, said, "It is clear to me that the only reasonable alternative at this point is to release these individuals".

"It is clear that the financial emergency in Detroit cannot be successfully addressed outside of such a filing, and it is the only reasonable alternative that is available".

In her lawsuit, she argues that leaving "was the only reasonable alternative" at that point.

"After years of exhaustive research and examination of the science and facts, prohibiting high-volume hydraulic fracturing is the only reasonable alternative," New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens said in a statement.

Before the Dumbarton and San Mateo-Hayward Bridges were built across the San Francisco Bay in the 1920s, San Francisco was bottled up at the north end of a long peninsula, with driving south on El Camino Real towards San Jose as the only reasonable alternative to the ferries for crossing the bay.

It is not the only reasonable choice.

Judge Paul Magnuson ruled in February 1984 that the EIS was valid, stating that the Pleasant Avenue alternative was the only reasonable one that would meet goals.

One problem with this argument is that the plausibility of a view will tend to vary with the onlooker's ability to think up reasonable alternatives; if view A seems like the only reasonable way a certain thing can have happened, then we might shrug and accept it as our best working hypothesis.

Cleanthes' design hypothesis is so underdetermined by the evidence that the only reasonable approach is to abandon any attempt to adjudicate among it and its many alternatives.

Still, theirs was the only reasonable response.