Sentence examples for voluntary alternatives from inspiring English sources

Butler believes that the "huge footprint" of publicly owned libraries "simply crowds out private and voluntary alternatives".

For instance, Brett (1988) has called for cooperative and voluntary alternatives, while Sandbrook (1985) has emphasized the need for "small-scale community solutions".

Creating more non-drug voluntary alternatives is a fundamental human right.

In reforming New York State's scandalous campaign finance system ("Time for Spring Cleaning," editorial, April 22), why not offer candidates and voters the voluntary alternative of full public financing?

President George W. Bush has outlined a go-slow, entirely voluntary alternative to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by the Kyoto Protocol.

The International Passive House Standard is a voluntary alternative, but there is little data on the performance of houses built to this standard in Australia.

Downshifting, voluntary ­simplicity, alternative hedonism – whatever they call it, it's presented as a change for the better.

Human rights activists say that repatriation is not voluntary when the alternative is spending three years in jail.

Since then, officials have stressed voluntary eradication and alternative development.Economics, too, conspires against the anti-drug warriors.

But registration is voluntary, and many alternative practitioners, despite the lure of official recognition, fear a state invasion of their turf.Scientists and medics are uneasy too.

But compliance with the order is voluntary, a weakened alternative to an online security bill that stalled in Congress last year after the Chamber of Commerce, a lobbying group that itself was hacked, led an effort to block it, saying that the regulations would be too burdensome.