111.   The scenario was made possible, Rhodes argues, because the only alternative was total annihilation.

112.   The trustees are disingenuous when they offer benefit cuts and tax increases as the only alternatives to privatization.

113.   They think their only alternative is to sell their homes.

114.   This decision was probably the only alternative to gridlock.

115.   Those really are the only alternatives.

116.   To fend off the criticisms, Duhalde has resorted to apocalyptic language that suggests that uniting behind him is the only alternative to a collapse.

117.   To some, the only alternative is to ignore the law.

118.   Too often, the only alternative is to place girls like Lloydia in a youth jail, but Hickson said she refused to do that.

119.   Turkey is plagued by corruption and inefficiency, and growing numbers of voters say the Welfare Party is the only alternative to the tired, inbred political establishment.

120.   Until now, Pieper said, parents have always assumed that they had to discipline, and the only alternative to discipline was permissiveness.