Opponents of capital punishment have promoted life sentences as an alternative to execution.

Also, the drug makers are promoting their products as a cost-effective alternative to surgery.

India is promoting itself as the world's next economic superstar, and as a democratic alternative to China for foreign investors.

Raymond promotes the term open source software as a more friendly alternative for the business and corporate world.

Retail trick-or-treating is promoted as a safe alternative to walking in neighborhoods.

It is promoted as a safer and healthier alternative to the damaging effects of long term exposure to the sun.

Little if anything in the public record suggests that he was promoting adoption as an alternative to abortion.

But it was not until the late 1990s that the state began promoting itself as an alternative to traditional offshore insurance arrangements.

This must definitely not lead to nuclear power plants being promoted as a Kyoto-friendly alternative.

Winter Carnival continued to be promoted as a popular alternative to mamarrachos.