The vote against the Democratic alternative was 53 to 46.

A Democratic alternative was defeated 232-to-187 earlier in the day.

"Among a large segment of the population there is no clear democratic alternative," he said recently.

"It's a fact of history that we are the democratic alternative in Iran."

Yet this is not making the opposition a fully democratic alternative.

He has done little to press his own bill or embrace Democratic alternatives.

Perhaps, but I don't think the main opposition represents a democratic alternative.

Claims that English in education could offer some more or less democratic alternative to popular culture began to appear immediately after the war.

Ireland will then be faced with no real democratic alternative.

Those provisions were in the Democratic alternative, which was defeated.