Trapped between unacceptable alternatives, Mach let his body govern.

Publishers may still seek licenses from the government that would allow editing, but many First Amendment specialists said that was an unacceptable alternative.

The unacceptable alternative would have been, in the US supreme court phrase, to afford brutality the cloak of law.

Today, the focus has shifted from selling the candidate to turning the opponent into an unacceptable alternative.

He added that jail was also an unacceptable alternative because it was crowded and dangerous.

My Master has designed me, as it were, to balance permanently between two unacceptable alternatives.

Democratic hopes for 2012 hence hinge on that party's ability to portray the Republican alternative as unacceptable if not intolerable.

But many Republicans agree that the Bush campaign also needs to focus much of its effort on making Mr. Clinton an unacceptable alternative.

Whether a particular conflict's refugees really number 400,000, or half that, amounts to quibbling over two morally unacceptable alternatives.

Ms. Holtzman, in a statement, said she authorized the partial expenditure because early release of inmates "is an unacceptable alternative."