"We wanted to make sure that our investors were aligned with this kind of long-term vision".
By stripping away a couple of centuries of typographical convention, Jones doesn't just jab his characters' speech right in the reader's eye, he also aligns himself with the kind of author who's been ignoring typographical convention all along.
If the prime minister intends to "kill off the health and safety culture" he is aligning himself with the kind of inefficient muddle-headed businesses that are precisely what Britain does not need if it is to become a prosperous country.
It aligns you with the kind of story seen in Indie Game: The Movie and at GDC.
And that's why it wilted and died and no one really gives a fuck about Avicii over here: do you really want to align yourself with the kind of people who think of club culture and the importance of corporate synergy in the same breath?
"Our investment in Paystack aligns with the kind of investments we look for – those that will help extend our reach into the global commerce ecosystem as it changes and grows, and that will provide mutually beneficial business opportunities".
But experimentalism seemed so squarely aligned with any kind of critical consciousness that dilution of the avant-garde formula was troubling to contemplate - especially if you were, as Franzen would recall of himself, "one of those skinny young men in scary glasses" who "look as though they possess massive amounts of data about small-label rock bands".
And if they could live nearby, why not create an urban community aligned with the culture of Zappos, which encourages the kind of "serendipitous interactions" that happen in offices without walls?
Mr. McCarthy's ketchup bottle, aligned with the dome of City Hall, makes a kind of Neo-Pop-psychoanalytic connection between patriarchy and power, with Mr. Bloomberg playing the role of a creepy authoritarian rather than a benevolent daddy.
"While many parts of H.R. 5 align with the kinds of reforms Business Roundtable believes are necessary to strengthen education in the United States, the bill does not go far enough to ensure accountability," said president John Engler.
The parishes aligned with the Anglican Province of Uganda instead.
