"We are still very far apart, so we are looking for which second-best solutions would be desirable."

Therefore, it seemed that this was a sensible second-best solution.

As a second-best solution, we should expect that these policymakers have at least learned something from their failure.

The policy framework they eventually settled on was, at best, a second-best solution to the problem: but it proved more effective than was widely anticipated.

House Democrats may settle for a second-best solution: setting aside $1 billion for defense conversion.

The alternative proposal, to re-regulate cable television is a second-best solution.

We have come to a conclusion which I consider to be a second-best solution.

So long as we do not have a common policy, I regard that as the second-best solution.

As the budget notes, reliance on foreigners' savings to fund America's needs for capital is "a second-best solution."

"But I would not want to comment at this time on what a second-best solution was."