And in one instance, he showed a true alternative to it.
True, alternative sources, like oil from Canada's tar sands, have continued to grow.
Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, called that program a true alternative, one that sells out its advertising.
The true alternative to nattering about "poeticity," a specious term, is to make a distinction between poetry and prose to draw the bright line.
Its so-called alternative government has been ridiculed, has failed to offer a true alternative to Mr. Aristide and has no popular mandate.
Leveson is proposing arbitration as a true alternative to court, with claims siphoned off into a separate legal process, providing a legally binding result.
"Many Fortune 500 companies are now considering the Lehigh Valley as a true alternative, not just a stalking horse for a better deal in New Jersey".
Either way, a substitute that becomes attractive only when the real thing is in short supply, is surely no true alternative.
Less clear is how much the three social conservatives will take aim at each other in the hopes of emerging as the one, true alternative to Mr. Romney.
Moorcock writes that the only true alternative to such figures is the anarchist: "a mature, realistic adult imposing laws upon the self and modifying them according to an experience of life, an interpretation of the world".
Matt Browne, who worked on New Labour campaigns in 2001 and 2005, argued modern progressive parties cannot win votes by shifting towards the centre, but instead need to offer a true alternative and aspirational economic message.
