But putting aside the crisis of a great war, what other alternatives present themselves as the possible issues in peace of the system now dominant at Paris?
The alternatives are (1) either to her receipt of Bothwell's answer to Letter II.
We have exhausted the three conceivablealternatives as to the date, occasion, and circumstances of this Letter.
Colet had seen in Italy which of these two alternatives those who came within the influence of the new learning were inclined to take.
Yet these were the alternatives which the Schoolmen, in common with the champions of dogmatic creeds in all ages, tried to force upon mankind.
The fact is that with few exceptions evolutionary moral philosophers evade the choice between alternatives which is always presented to them.
I convinced them the two latter alternatives were beyond the powers of the executive, and the first could only be done with the consent of the minister of France.
The second motion is a middle proposition between the first and the last alternatives in the report.
The alternatives were, rather, strong monarchy and baronial anarchy.
Again, the alternatives are two, Christianity or Pessimism.
It might mean so many things--she could read into it so many harrowing alternatives of indifference and despair, of irony and tenderness!
We have here the three alternativesof pure rationalism, voluntarism, and a doctrine hard to characterize in a single word; that rests on a synthesis of the norms of both rationalism and voluntarism.
In a world of will the identity of alternatives cannot determine beforehand the actual decision; that belongs to the free activity of the subject.
With these alternatives in view, Washington detached sixty men in advance to make a road; and at the same time wrote to Governor Dinwiddie for mortars and grenadoes, and cannon of heavy metal.
It is evident that the filial feeling still throbbed toward the mother country, and a complete separation from her had not yet entered into the alternatives of her colonial children.
The whisper of her silks, the remembered gleam of jewels in the henna hair flouted that thought, and not troubling his ingenuity with alternatives he was content to follow her swift steps.
Even McLean's mind and McLean's Copts wouldn't make much of all the alternatives that his unsettled habits had afforded.
The obvious answer is that statesmen have to act, and that whoever acts does somehow balance all the alternatives which are before him.
The human mind offers more alternativesin a minute than does the centipede in a lifetime.
He is testingalternatives and organizing experience into ordered trains.
The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.
One of two alternatives must then be resorted to: the people must alter the constitution, or the legislature must repeal the law.
For if one is engaged in a contest where everything is at stake, either liberty is assured to one if victorious, or death if defeated, the former of which alternatives is desirable, and the latter some time or other inevitable.
There were only the alternativesof taking his army from him, or giving him such a command.
Can we then doubt which of thesealternatives is the fact?
These two coercive systems are the onlyalternatives to the wage-system that have ever been found workable in the past history of the world.
We have before us practically two alternatives only.
By this time the Society was thoroughly aware of its relation to international socialism, and the remaining six pages of the tract are occupied by expositions of the alternatives above alluded to.
The Research Department set up its own office and staff, and began to collect information about all the methods of control of industry at present existing as alternatives to the normal capitalist system.
The alternatives for us were sheer submission to aggression, or war, a war of self-defence.
The alternatives were very clearly stated on the other side of the Atlantic:-- 'The underlying assumption heretofore has been that a nation's security and prosperity rest chiefly upon its own strength and resources.
How powerfully the Nationalist fears operate to obscure the plain alternatives is revealed in a letter of M.
It is not true to say that in the decade preceding Armageddon the alternatives to fighting Germany were exhausted, and that nothing was left but war or submission.
The first of these alternatives was at once rejected, for the Confederate numbers were too small to permit any permanent detachment of a considerable force, and without hesitation Lee determined to adopt the bolder course.
Or again two alternatives may be apprehended without any resultant judgment as to their respective merits.
To a less extent, similar problems and alternatives arise in regard to the church:--Catholicism a compromise between Jewish Christianity and Pauline or Gentile Christianity (F.
His plight was piteous; never were alternatives so apparently impossible.
Thereafter he had the rescue of Rachel, or her avenging to accomplish, and the results following upon the necessity of either of these alternatives would not permit him to return into the land of his fathers.
The alternatives he had to choose as her possible fate were death in the Nile or capture by Unas.
Unfortunately in many of the questions which arise the alternatives are not so clearly labeled.
The choice of the various alternatives has some practical bearing on exploration.
The Whigs, misreading the lesson of the American Rebellion, saw no alternatives but this complete independence and the present difficult and irritating subjection.
The Tory Government, by refusing to act in concert with the other Powers, had left only two alternatives possible to Russia: to do nothing, or to interfere single-handed.
The alternatives were the workhouse and the generosity of their children.
And this issue is already so plain and simple, the alternatives are becoming so pitilessly clear, that even in the stupidest court and the stupidest constituencies, it must presently begin in some dim way to be felt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alternatives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
