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  • initialism There is no alternative (a political slogan of Margaret Thatcher).

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Examples

  • What Margaret Thatcher called the TINA presumption – that There Is No Alternative to Anglo-Saxon political and economic ways of being -- is giving way to THEMBA -- There Must Be An Alternative.

    America in the new world order Steven E. Levingston 2010

  • (Are you REALLY going to try to defend Jsu Garcia's lame-ass "TINA" and out-stretched hand while she is disemboweled in mid-air?)

    A Nightmare on Elm Street Movie Trailer #2 | /Film 2010

  • 21.10.2008 It was only yesterday that "free market" ideologues were dancing on Karl Marx's grave with scornful shouts that "greed is good" and "TINA" - "there is no alternative" to capitalism.

    CPUSA Front Page 2009

  • 21.10.2008 It was only yesterday that "free market" ideologues were dancing on Karl Marx's grave with scornful shouts that "greed is good" and "TINA" - "there is no alternative" to capitalism.

    CPUSA Front Page 2009

  • 21.10.2008 It was only yesterday that "free market" ideologues were dancing on Karl Marx's grave with scornful shouts that "greed is good" and "TINA" - "there is no alternative" to capitalism.

    CPUSA Front Page 2009

  • 21.10.2008 It was only yesterday that "free market" ideologues were dancing on Karl Marx's grave with scornful shouts that "greed is good" and "TINA" - "there is no alternative" to capitalism.

    CPUSA Front Page 2009

  • He has a spider tattoo on his right hand and tattoos on his forearms that read "TINA" and

    News 4 Jax - Local News 2010

  • It has exposed the vanity of fashionable claims such as the "end of history" (Francis Fukuyama) or Margaret Thatcher's famous "TINA" ( "There is no alternative").

    Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Marga Tojo Gonzales 2010

  • He has a spider tattoo on his right hand and tattoos on his forearms that read "TINA" and

    News 4 Jax - Local News 2010

  • DESCRIPTION OF THE FRANCKE "TINA" OR VAT PROCESS FOR THE AMALGAMATION OF

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various

  • She said, ​“There is no alter­na­tive.” TINA; there’s an abbre­vi­a­tion for it, even: TINA.

    How To Lose A Country: The New Political Ice Age - Ece Temelkuran | Open Transcripts 2020

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