alternative system
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalternativeandsystem
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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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system
noun
uk/ˈsɪs.təm/us/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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This is presumably because we care so deeply about raising our own children that noalternativesystemcould be put into practice and be stable.
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For one thing, analternativesystemwould be far too costly to put in place.
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Comparative studies are being carried out to model the expected population changes under thisalternativesystemof tsetse control.
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A heavy workload is not always a handicap in analternativesystem.
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Section 6 discusses analternativesystemin which the redistributive effects found in the previous sections are avoided.
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Analternativesystemwas proposed in late 1953.
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When the laws of a theory are imposed on a physical system, this generates analternativesystemcalled the theory-induced physical system.
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Adopting analternativesystemactually involves more human labor5.
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By the late sixties, federal poverty programmes funded analternativesystemof power and patronage that circumvented parties and local politics.
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Analternativesystemof health care remained, in the form of the voluntary sector, which provided pay beds either on an individual basis or through a health care insurance scheme.
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Moreover, the same objective amount of work that might be thought excessive in a system that puts strong emphasis on high productivity, is regarded as normal in analternativesystem.
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Fresh-market tomato production in a low-inputalternativesystemusing a cover crop mulch.
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In other words, if we extend these results, the fact that the farmer has a work ethic would seem to be a deciding factor in hisalternativesystembeing sustained.
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Bentham's great achievement was to have provided analternativesystemof legislation that would transform national character gradually, making reform politics compatible with domestic and international peace.
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I believe that the buoyancy of analternativesystemis far to be preferred.
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This was a by-product, and it was a way of providing finance for analternativesystemof television in this country.
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I know he does not want anyalternativesystem.
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We have considered very carefully thatalternativesystem.
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We must face up to the possibility of bringing in analternativesystemof voting.
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We have already the example of analternativesystem—the industrial injuries benefit system.
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