But it still gives him a political headache.Mr Cameron does not want a press law, and would prefer the industry to come up with a tough alternative.
When they were announced last week, Mr Bush admitted the al-Qaida suspect Abu Zubaydah had been subjected to several "tough" alternative interrogation techniques during his incarceration.
German diplomats acknowledge that if no deal is in sight by the time Merkel and Obama meet, then the two leaders will have to seek tougher alternatives, even though the Germans remain deeply concerned at the prospect of arming Ukraine.
It has also emerged that hundreds of state schools are switching to a tougher alternative to GCSEs this year.
The force attracted attention last year after announcing it would not arrest people for low-level cannabis possession and cultivation offenses, but nothing has been said about its decision to divert some class A drug users away from the courts—although they have a tougher alternative than the one employed in Bristol.
Once funded, Mike selected our pilot to be the toughest alternative school in the region and me to be the teacher, he said "Great, now let's train you to teach," and sent me through a week long certification training in NY.
If Ukip is serious about giving Farage an enforced sabbatical and keeping him well clear of the out campaign in the referendum, it had better line up a tough, credible alternative first.
The power authority is now carrying 3,500 megawatts of wind-generated power through its transmission lines, more than half of it under contract to California utilities to comply with the state's tough new alternative energy portfolio requirements.
He may, however, now back a tougher reformist alternative in the person of Mir Hosein Mousavi, prime minister during Iran's war with Iraq in the 1980s.
This is not the situation the president envisioned when he unveiled the military commissions as a tough-minded alternative to the civilian trials that the Clinton administration had used against terrorists.
This leads to an uneven output from wind farms and makes it tougher for alternative energy producers to work smoothly with power grids that must send a steady flow of electricity to homes and businesses.
