The phrase
"acceptable alternative" means having a choice or option that is considered okay or suitable, even if it is not the first or most preferred choice.
Full definition
If your dog likes to chew cables, he or she should be distracted with a
more acceptable alternative to chew such as a treat or a dog toy.
Rather than fight feline nature by punishing the cat for scratching, as an owner you can offer the cat
acceptable alternatives such as scratching posts, scratching boards or other scratching items.
Standing firm in words and actions by teaching students to
understand acceptable alternatives to inappropriate behaviors creates a relationship based in trust and accountability.
Many tobacco smokers are now turning to electronic cigarettes to help break the habit or simply to use these products as a more
socially acceptable alternative.
But when fresh produce is simply not available, frozen — and THEN canned — fruits and veggies would make
acceptable alternatives in your baby food recipes... as long as the guidelines above are carefully followed.
• Controls behavior like chewing and digging: Rabbits that are kept indoors will begin to destroy household items such as electric cords, furniture, and carpet if not provided
with acceptable alternatives.
The last choice is to default on the debt — a perfectly
acceptable alternative if the State's favorites and Power Elites have already exited the Government debt market and moved their assets to a protected refuge.
«The top two tips to keep your dog from chewing inappropriate objects would be to control the environment and offer
many acceptable alternatives for chewing,» says AKC Canine Good Citizen Director ® and Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, Mary Burch, Ph.D..
Rather, if it is to occur, I personally believe it will be driven by a near historic lack of
acceptable alternative investments in a world both awash in liquidity and intentionally starved for rate of return in safe investment vehicles by central bankers.
In this period of history, when militant homosexuals not only reveal their liaisons and lifestyles but actively and articulately promote the homosexual relationship as a
morally acceptable alternative to marriage, legislation that would require the military to accept homosexuals would do much more to violate the rights of heterosexual military personnel than it would to promote the rights of homosexuals.
Britain will therefore seek voluntary agreements to ensure that HFCs are used only where emissions are avoidable and «safe, practical and more
environmentally acceptable alternatives are available».
«Field tests have shown that cerium dioxide is an
ecologically acceptable alternative to cuprite, a substance that is used as a biocide together with copper thiocyanate and copper pyridine at concentrations of up to 50 percent in anti-fouling coatings,» explained Professor Wolfgang Tremel of JGU's Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry.
No, I don't want to see money wasted on «too - cheap - to - meter» which is in an expensive terminal decline, distracting from
community acceptable alternatives that have very broad support.
However, the availability of an effective and
ethically acceptable alternative makes some of the worst prospects of the embryonic stem cell project — such as the creation and destruction of cloned human embryos on an industrial scale in order to create personalized stem cell lines for millions of people — now far less likely to come to pass.)
(I suppose ADR / ODR are a kind of
acceptable alternative market, but — for enforcement and oversight reasons — not totally separate from the «main» market.)
Critics say the measure will enable K - 12 teachers to present intelligent design and creationism
as acceptable alternatives to evolution in the classroom.
I typically don't love eggs and sausage for breakfast, so I started to come up with more
acceptable alternatives for my morning meal, some of which involved nondairy yogurts, avocados, and even smoked wild Alaskan salmon with capers.
I encourage all my clients to feed a balanced, high quality raw diet if possible; balanced high quality cooked or canned diets are
acceptable alternatives if they can not feed raw.»
And while mimicking the impeccable work of Mother Nature may not be the hobbyist's priority, there are
many acceptable alternatives that can be made available in a retail setting.
Rather, if it is to occur, I personally believe it will be driven by a near historic lack
of acceptable alternative investments in a world both awash in liquidity and intentionally starved for rate of return in safe investment vehicles by central bankers.
Finding
no acceptable alternative, much of the labour force has elected to emigrate.
More Muslims are embracing them as
an acceptable alternative to arranged marriages and the vagaries of 21st - century, American - style dating.
Hope is the one thing for which there is
no acceptable alternative.
The magnificent national memorial now built on the spot where the 168 people died senselessly is my idea of the shape of tenacious hope, and hope is the one thing for which there is
no acceptable alternative.
1) I do not think that Romney is
an acceptable alternative choice.
Today when more militant and vocal homosexuals are advocating that homosexuality should be included in sex education courses as
an acceptable alternative to marriage, military personnel themselves and parents of young service men and women can not help but be concerned about this matter.