1.   As a result, their efforts were diverted more towards devising non-custodial alternatives than facing up to the intractable problems of institutional confinement.

2.   Advisers had disagreed on whether to endorse the existing proposed amendment, which has drawn concern from prosecutors, or to devise an alternative.

3.   Officials pressed ahead with the disputed plan, while Kiley and a team of past associates from New York and Boston devised an alternative.

4.   Other cities, including New York, were praised for devising alternatives to criminalizing homelessness.

5.   So the Internet trading alternative was devised.

6.   Some said researchers should devise non-drug alternatives to lower cholesterol, or perhaps to use along with drugs to achieve a bigger reduction in risk.

7.   Texas introduced centralized testing this year but received permission from the EPA to put the system on hold until the Texas Legislature can devise an alternative.

8.   The challenger is to devise an alternative to sprawl,where people can envision their children playing in the streets.

9.   These high-temperature superconductors do not conform to the BCS theory, and, to their frustration, theorists have yet to devise an alternative.

10.   Bush has promised European allies that he would help devise an alternative to the Kyoto treaty that would ease global warming without hurting the U.S. and other economies.