11.   With the war, the families that could afford to send their children abroad to study thought the States provided a safer option.

12.   Airlifts would prove a safer option than land convoys, given reports of Taliban hold-outs and conflicts among local warlords.

13.   For waste producers and handlers, however, sending the waste overseas is an even safer option.

14.   Safer options existed but he failed to use them, the prosecution argued.

15.   Though the safer option would have been to do nothing, she said, the Internet needs to evolve, grow and change.