In any event, it is an irreversible step, and if we are at all honest with ourselves, we will know we have no other alternative than to live in the world in which God has seen fit to place us.

Certainly, in analyzing an action which truly faced such alternatives, `` it is never possible that no world would be preferable to some worlds, and there are in truth no circumstances in which the destruction of human life presents itself as a reasonable alternative ''.

He bravely attempts to face this alternative realistically, i.e., by considering the worst possible outcome, namely, the total domination of the world by Russia within a few years.

Alternate history or alternative history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world.

As the modern world evolved, several other patented materials, such as bones, starch, fish skins and isinglass, and casein, were introduced as alternative materials for glue manufacture.

The main alternative to the common law system is the civil law system, which is used in Continental Europe, and most of the rest of the world.

In many parts of the world, alternative local subdivisions are still in use.

* In the Thursday Next series of novels, notably Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde depicts an alternative world in which croquet is a brutal mass spectator sport.

Many-worlds implies that all possible alternative histories and futures are real, each representing an actual " world " ( or " universe ").

In addition, the term is used in a broader sense to cover a world-view on a wide variety of topics, including chemical evolution as an alternative term for abiogenesis or for nucleosynthesis of chemical elements, galaxy formation and evolution, stellar evolution, spiritual evolution, technological evolution and universal evolution, which seeks to explain every aspect of the world in which we live.

George R. R. Martin set the Ice and Fire story in an alternative world of Earth or a " secondary world ", such as J. R. R. Tolkien pioneered with Middle-earth.

This edition both loosened the connection between RuneQuest and Glorantha, introducing ' Fantasy Europe ' as the principal game world for Rune Quest, and much broadened the scope of Glorantha, which was treated as an alternative game world.

Harp use has recently expanded in the " alternative " music world of commercial popular music.

High fantasy is defined as fantasy fiction set in an alternative, entirely fictional (" secondary ") world, rather than the real, or " primary " world.

Some theorists and writers argued that human rights, liberal democracy and capitalist free market economics had become the only remaining ideological alternative for nations in the post – Cold War world.

In particular, his stories — together with those of C. S. Lewis — were among the first to establish the convention of an alternative world or universe as the setting for speculative fiction.

In British oval racing, the term Production car racing has been used as an alternative for hot rods, as run in the West Country during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, and a Production car world championship race was held twice in the 1970s, won by Spence Morgan in 1974 and Ralph Sanders in 1975, both driving Ford Anglias.

In the Star Trek franchise, the books The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volumes 1 & 2 ), by Greg Cox, detail the fictional Eugenics Wars of the early 1990s – still many years into the future when first mentioned in the episode " Space Seed " in 1967 – giving alternative explanations for real world events such as the Indian nuclear test of 1974 and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, presenting them as small parts of a single wider conflict.

In 1977 a Lesbian Pride Rally was organized as an alternative to sharing gay men's issues, especially what Adrienne Rich termed " the violent, self-destructive world of the gay bars ".

Climbing up on the fireplace mantel, she pokes at the wall-hung mirror behind the fireplace and discovers, to her surprise, that she is able to step through it to an alternative world.

* Men Like Gods ( 1923 ) by H. G. Wells, men and women in an alternative universe live without world government in a perfected state of anarchy ; " Our education is our government ," a Utopian named Lion says ; sectarian religion, like politics, has died away, and advanced scientific research flourishes ; life is governed by " the Five Principles of Liberty ," which are privacy, free movement, unlimited knowledge, truthfulness, and free discussion and criticism.

Another slogan is " Another world is possible " pointing to an alternative globalization where people and not profit is in focus.

Jurisdictions where alternative medical practices are sufficiently widespread may license and regulate them.

where p is the frequency of one allele and q is the frequency of the alternative allele, which necessarily sum to unity.

On the plane the most common alternative is polar coordinates, where every point is represented by its radius r from the origin and its angle θ.

An alternative to double motion is to use a racquet head fake, where the initial motion is continued but the racquet is turned during the hit.

Since Rimbert mentions them to have crossed the seas by ship " where it was possible " they clearly had the alternative of going around them as well, meaning that the seas were probably the numerous lakes in southern Sweden.

Even though most proposals call for payments of less than the full amount of the debt owing, in most cases, the creditors will accept the deal, because if they do not, the next alternative may be personal bankruptcy, where the creditors will get even less money.

According to Homer, Circe suggested two alternative routes to Odysseus to return to Ithaca: toward the " Wandering Rocks " where King Aeolus reigned or passing between the dangerous Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis, conventionally identified with the Strait of Messina.

Their use as a low-energy alternative to Portland cement has been pioneered in China, where several million tonnes per year are produced.

As an alternative to a school-sponsored Day of Silence opposing bullying of LGBT students, conservative Christians organized a Golden Rule Initiative, where they passed out cards saying " As a follower of Christ, I believe that all people are created in the image of God and therefore deserve love and respect.

Some former CCC sites in good condition were reactivated from 1941 to 1947 as Civilian Public Service camps where conscientious objectors performed " work of national importance " as an alternative to military service.

A convention is a selection from among two or more alternatives, where the rule or alternative is agreed upon among participants.

Lewis's account of convention received an extended critique in Margaret Gilbert's On Social Facts ( 1989 ), where an alternative account is offered.

An alternative, Proto-Indo-European etymology comes through Potnia and Despoina ; where Des-represents a derivative of PIE * dem ( house, dome ), and Demeter is " mother of the house " ( from PIE * dems-méh₂tēr ).

When it was discovered that the market for alternative versions of films was substantial, the studios themselves began to promote " director's cuts " for a wide array of films, even some where the director already had final cut of the theatrical release.

Cost-push inflation is a type of inflation caused by substantial increases in the cost of important goods or services where no suitable alternative is available.

An alternative to the version of " unbiased " above, is " median-unbiased ", where the median of the distribution of estimates agrees with the true value ; thus, in the long run half the estimates will be too low and half too high.

In 2007, the AFL Commission laid down the requirement that all clubs must produce an alternative jumper for use in matches where jumpers are considered to clash.

Limited disclosure, is an alternative approach where full details of the vulnerability are provided to a restricted community of developers and vendors while the public is only informed of a potential security issue.

An alternative to filtration is centrifugation — instead of filtering the mixture of solid and liquid particles, the mixture is centrifuged to force the ( usually ) denser solid to the bottom, where it often forms a firm cake.

: The Invention of Lying ( 2009 ) ( set in an alternative universe where lying hasn't been invented yet )

However, while there are many passages where the Gospel of Barnabas sets out alternative readings to parallel pericopes found in the canonical gospels, none of the references to Muhammad by name occurs in such a synoptic passage ; and in particular, none of the " Muhammad " references in Barnabas corresponds to a " Paraclete " reference in canonical John.

When William of Orange, ruler of the Dutch Republic, occupied the British throne with his wife Mary in what has become known as the Glorious Revolution, gin became vastly more popular, particularly in crude, inferior forms, where it was more likely to be flavoured with turpentine as an alternative to juniper.

Still, the Battle of Hlobane Mountain offers just a glimpse of an alternative mobile scenario, where the manoeuviing Zulu " horns " cut off and drove back Buller's column when it was dangerously strung out on the mountain.

Some forms rather more familiar to Modern Japanese speakers begin to appear – the continuative ending-te begins to reduce onto the verb ( e. g. yonde for earlier yomite ), the-k-in the final syllable of adjectives drops out ( shiroi for earlier shiroki ); and some forms exist where modern standard Japanese has retained the earlier form ( e. g. hayaku > hayau > hayɔɔ, where modern Japanese just has hayaku, though the alternative form is preserved in the standard greeting o-hayō gozaimasu " good morning "; this ending is also seen in o-medetō " congratulations ", from medetaku ).