alternative source
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alternative
adjective
uk/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use ...
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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The final two volumes probably represent a forlorn attempt to continue the publication with support from analternativesourceof funding.
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These trust funds are viewed as analternativesourceof capital for local investors who cannot access commercial bank loans.
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Onealternativesourceof assessment is consensus conferences or reports.
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The firstalternativesourceis the possibility that a person could attain a purpose1 by mere chance.
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The relevance of this kind of study is possible use of gas-liner and staged pinches as analternativesourceof thermonuclear fusion.
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Of the manufactured products, sulphur-coated urea is a slow releasealternativesourceof nitrogen to ammonium nitrate.
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This implies that high fertilizer prices would stimulate the use of manure as analternativesourceof nutrients, provided that manure prices remain constant.
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Analternativesourceof reinforcement, shared by animals and humans, arises from social interaction that normally accompanies cooperation and altruism in nature.
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Although foods and food sources have not been commonly linked to cryptosporidiosis outbreaks, food contamination should be considered as analternativesourceof infection.
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Thealternativesourceof putative partisan change was economic development and a resulting politics of economic interest.
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There is no possibility of transferring to a more appropriate institution based on medical need or of finding analternativesourceof payment.
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More recently analternativesourcefor the proton needed on the peroxide has been investigated.
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The time was not ripe for the elimination of the international role of sterling until analternativesourceof international liquidity could be devised.
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Availability of analternativesourceof income from remittance also reduces its dependence on common property resources.
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On a sustainable base these activities would not be objectionable and could be analternativesource of income for rural communities and perhaps a valuable non-timber forest product.
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They argued that, should the bowl be moved, thealternativesourceof control would compromise the container's ability to constrain the location of the located object over time.
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Electronic recording of sickness certification in primary care medical records may provide analternativesourceof data, but its relation to other sources of sickness absence information is unknown.
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Apart from industries related to agriculture, such as rural crafts and smallscale food processing, manufacturing as analternativesourceof employment to farming in the countryside was rejected.
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In this difficult situation, children could gain from the extended family in yet another sense, for grandparents and other kin could provide them with analternativesourceof family information.
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