But American officials said they would try to think of alternatives.

"Right now I do not see that we have much of an alternative."

We will now take each of the above six alternatives in turn.

A number of alternatives have been developed over the years.

Given the cost of most alternatives, he may have no choice.

A. So far, most of the alternatives that people are talking about have their own problems.

She tried to think of alternatives and could find none.

Another reason has been a lack of alternatives, or too many.

"And what do you have in the way of alternatives?"

The concept of a third alternative had simply never been considered before.