Today's politicians do not like to talk in public about policy alternatives that involve pain.

Staff members analyze current policies and present the impact of proposed policy alternatives.

Regulation should only be used as a last resort, when all other policy alternatives have been exhausted.

The party's appeal cannot be attributed to the policy alternatives it is offering the public.

As such, any policy alternative that does not meet this threshold can be removed from consideration.

Their role is not to clarify public policy alternatives available to help political leaders make informed choices.

Recent speeches by Democratic leaders critical of the current administration have failed to offer a coherent foreign policy alternative to the president's plans.

State intervention in an academically bankrupt school district is not a policy alternative.

In the end, as confidence eroded, the government was left with few viable policy alternatives.

He said such initiatives offer a policy alternative to negotiations that often bog down.