Secretary Gates says all possible alternatives were explored during the long negotiations and all are either "politically untenable or operationally unworkable."

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

The gathering is also expected to address environmental challenges and the need to develop alternatives to fossil fuels.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

"And,they have no alternatives before them. This makes them especially vulnerable to exploitation and violence as they search for food and shelter.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

He said Mexico should push for labor reforms and better education to give its youth viable, legal alternatives to the drug trade.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

There really, as far as we're concerned, are no alternatives to the arrangement that was negotiated."

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To reverse the trend, experts agree that vending machines in schools should offer healthy alternatives.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

Here in the United States, stand-alone record stores have given way to such alternatives as digital downloading which now accounts for about 20 percent of all recorded music sales.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

So how do you feed a city like, for example, Nairobi or many other very large mega-cities with desperately poor people in them where food simply cannot be provided in cities without access to diesel and so on?" Taylor says governments need to start investing in safe and sustainable energy alternatives.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

to say 'get real.' What is dangerous is to commit "This is extraordinary, to spend a whole lot of money that we might not have on a system that most certainly won't help when the world is changing, when we're facing new threats, where now more and more military experts are saying there are different alternatives."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30