• Sir David says that probably a third of women prisoners should have been given an alternative form of punishment.

    ECONOMIST: Prisons

  • Eighteen months ago Pierce turned to an alternative form of financing called factoring--the process of selling receivables at a discount to raise quick cash.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It will also make provision for pension-sharing on divorce and introduce stake-holder pension schemes, offering a new, flexible and good value alternative form of pension.

    BBC: The Queen's speech in full

  • Politicians such as Jaap Marais ( Obituary, August 19th) feared that even talk about reform would undermine white rule, just as in China today the Communist leaders fiercely refuse to acknowledge the possibility of any alternative form of government.

    ECONOMIST: Harry Oppenheimer

  • They have undoubtedly established themselves as an alternative corporate form.

    ECONOMIST: Traditional listed firms are facing competition

  • After all sorts of attempts, we concluded that there's no alternative but to form a new party.

    BBC: Nepal Maoists: Faction breaks away from governing party

  • Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts raised concerns that Wales is lagging behind other countries with credit unions which can offer an alternative and more responsible form of lending.

    BBC: Debate on payday loan companies

  • The two boxes form the alternative nervous system's alternative brain.

    ECONOMIST: We can rebuild him. We have the technology

  • However, if we look at the iPod business, Apple has done a very good job of offering alternative products form factors and capabilities at varying price points.

    FORBES: Apple's Future Is In Plastics?

  • He says he will form an alternative government, and he's chosen to announce that government on the 16th of September in the same place and on the same day the Mexican military celebrates Mexico's independence day.

    NPR: Court President Backs Calderon Win in Mexico

  • The FIA announced on the June 19 they intended to sue the eight teams who had threatened to form a new, alternative championship for breach of contract.

    CNN: Formula One reach agreement over 2010

  • Despite increased corporate engagement in all levels of energy security and sustainability efforts, the state plays a disproportionate role in shaping the form and development of alternative energy technologies due to the significant technological and financial needs underpinning their growth.

    FORBES: Alternative Energy And Global Energy Security In Aftermath Of Rio+20

  • Another alternative, or addition, to some form of compulsion or automatic saving might be to automatically enrol workers in their own workplace pension schemes.

    BBC: A pensioner at a post office

  • "The Essure procedure is typically performed as an outpatient procedure and is intended to be a less invasive and a less costly alternative to tubal ligation, the leading form of birth control worldwide, " says Oberweis.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But they have the potential to work, he argues, and even in their flawed form they are better than the alternative, which has usually been wild vengeance that has, in turn, laid the seeds of future conflict.

    ECONOMIST: War-crimes tribunals: Their time has come | The

  • Mr Kennedy says he expects Labour to honour its pledge but he strenuously denies any suggestion of a pre-election pact between himself and the prime minister to introduce the lesser form of proportional representation - the Alternative Vote system.

    BBC: Charles Kennedy

  • And, if so, when do you think the Democrats might form a coherent response and suggest an alternative policy.

    NPR: Black Caucus Mulls Iraq Troop Withdrawal

  • His centre-right government must now either find alternative savings and submit them to parliament in the form of a supplementary budget - at a time when its authority to implement further austerity is weakened by the court's decision - or seek to renegotiate the terms of the bailout accord with the troika, the three institutions overseeing its implementation, says the BBC's Alison Roberts in Lisbon.

    BBC: Portugal constitutional court rejects budget articles

  • "As a council we will work with Job Centre Plus and other local agencies to form a task force to help employees find alternative work, " Mr Williams said.

    BBC: Ford Southampton Transit plant 'could close'

  • The filmmakers were so inept in their portrayal of any kind of recognizable reality that their creations became a form of grubby science fiction, documentaries about an alternative planet.

    NEWYORKER: A Psychotronic Childhood

  • Those calling for immediate action may be right that losses should fall mainly on creditors in the form of higher inflation and fiscal transfers since the alternative of forcing citizens of indebted countries to bear the cost of adjustment is politically impossible and likely to lead to a collapse in the euro.

    WSJ: France Is Biggest Obstacle to Solution

  • Now, there is a percolating market for hipper, alternative Haggadas with modern messages conveyed in both written and video form.

    WSJ: What's Plaguing Passover Feasts? Some Say Rituals Need Spicing Up

  • Makers of fixed-wing aircraft are also looking at diesel engines, in small planes at least, where they show promise as a serious alternative to standard piston engines, which run on a high-octane form of petrol.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • The main alternative to allowing the free flow of capital is to re-introduce some form of exchange controls on capital movements.

    BBC: Curbing global turmoil

  • It has searched for alternative methods of growth and has acquired European electronic exchange Euronext in 2006 to form a combined entity which is now known as NYSE Euronext.

    FORBES: Fatter Margins For NYSE Euronext From Deutsche Boerse Merger

  • And what you find in time is a city form, and a city landscape, which is far more conducive to alternative forms of mobility such as, not only public transit, but walking and biking and even ride-sharing versus taking a car any and everywhere.

    NPR: A Future Full of Pumped-Up Gas Prices?

  • Finally, perhaps the most advanced form of citizen journalism is where a community of users works together to make an alternative news website.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | Citizen journalist: My week

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