31.  Because the Raiders often leave seven players in to block on passes, those are the only options available to the quarterback.

32.  Berman said that while some residents distrust the police, until now the only option they endorsed to fight crime was to hire yet more officers.

33.  Because galaxies are irregularly shaped anyway, the only option was to add up the tiny smearing in a statistical sample of many background galaxies shining through many halos.

34.  Birth and abortion are not the only options to a possible pregnancy.

35.  Bitter, he eventually signed an incentive-laden contract with the Red Sox, which was just about his only option.

36.  Believing that there was no more room in landfills, Americans concluded that recycling was their only option.

37.  Both judges agreed that the only option left was executive clemency, the longest of long shots.

38.  A blank ballot was the only option.

39.  A thorny issue has been the implications of making a natural foods co-op the only option in town.

40.  A transplant was her only option, and she had to become morbidly ill before she could be put on a donor list.