The only alternative was some kind of representative government, and for this the county was a small enough area.

Julia wished I would take some other topics besides German authors, but when I told her the alternative would be metaphysics, she laughed and retracted the wish.

The alternative to this gigantic effort to rearrange our world is not a continuation of muddling along, but social war.

The alternative is some narcotic poison, such as opium or morphia.

The alternative, for a Supreme Being, when once Animism prevailed, was sacrifice (as to more popular ghost deities) or neglect.

It is not strange that mercantile and mechanical employments are thronged by young men, running all risks for success, when the alternative is a life in which they find no meaning, and no inspiring and ennobling influence.

It must have been plain to him that I was not prepared to accept any explanation of the unconscious man's condition other than that of morphine poisoning; whence the inference was pretty plain that the alternatives were recovery or an inquest.

So the second alternative of the Austrian Chancellor was the last remaining chance of Austria and the Allies agreeing upon the terms to be offered to Russia.

THE ALTERNATIVE Is violence or total surrender the only choice open to any people to whom Freedom or Justice is denied?

The alternative to that is racial replacement and social decay.

With and without being direct opposites, this alternative is a thing of course, and the phrase is an idle truism.

That, poor man, he could hardly help, his only alternative being his own sister-in-law.

"The only alternative to a hopeless blood feud was the adoption of Islam."

As the settlements of our citizens progress toward them, the game, upon which they mainly rely for subsistence, is driven off or destroyed, and the only alternative left to them is starvation or plunder.

Should a widow try to escape her fate the only alternatives are suicide or a life of shame.

He argued that the plan adopted by the Federal Convention provided for a "regulated democracy," the only alternative to which was despotism.

The alternative is subjection, both political and economic; and neither the exhaustion of the Central Powers in the present struggle nor the individual consolidation of the Balkan States in the subsequent settlement will suffice by themselves to avert it in the end.

The alternative was an all-water route, consuming several days, by steamer along the north coast, with halts at different ports, and around the eastern end of the island to the destination.

THE ALTERNATIVE Is violence or total surrender the only choice open to any people to whom Freedom or Justice is denied?

The alternative to a developing Socialism among the labouring masses in America is that revolutionary Anarchism from which it is slowly but definitely marking itself off.

The only alternative against a decay of passion on such occasions, is a sufficient portion of virtue, strong and well-grounded love, and constancy of mind as firm as the rock.

The alternative was accident.

But I received from him the orders of General Ignatieff to urge the Cretans to reject them, as the certain alternative was their independence and annexation to Greece.

The alternative is a designed Cosmos.

To compel confessions, tortures inconceivably horrible were used, to which the alternative of death would have been a boon; and yet there were not wanting those among the Bâlois who would endure these torments rather than utter their own condemnation.