The problem, of course, is to find an acceptable alternative.

Or water can be used alone as a perfectly acceptable alternative.

It's one thing to give patients a choice of several acceptable alternatives.

He had a new fight on his hands, and there was no acceptable alternative to victory.

My order was only an acceptable alternative to waiting in space until their air supply ran out.

The street is not an acceptable alternative to the classroom.

This was an acceptable alternative, provided girls went in company.

Opposed, but, thus far, had been able to come up with no acceptable alternative.

But he does not really explore this thought, or suggest what an acceptable alternative might be.

Diplomacy is the only acceptable alternative, and time may be running short.