"align against" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to two specific groups unifying and taking action against a shared opposition. For example, "The teachers and students aligned against the proposed budget cuts."
When all these things align against a certain format or category, it's hard to recover".
On one side of the cultural divide, the pro-books side, our answers align against moralistic messages, against utility, against excisions of any kind.
Other forces align against her as well — a sleazy congressman, an aide's nosy girlfriend, and Governor Danny Chung Randall Parkk), a military vet angling for the Presidency — in ways that promise screwball complications.
With that narrow advantage in the Senate and under the assumption that all Democrats will align against them, Republicans can lose only two of their own votes and still pass a health-care bill (with a tiebreaking vote from Vice President Pence).
"Technology keeps changing, and the music industry doesn't know whether to align against services like Pandora and Spotify or support them," he says.
The pre-miRNA terminal loop on one end induces hDicer's N-terminal domain structural change, on the other end, helps pre-miRNA's stem region align against hDicer's RNase domain.
The remaining reads were aligned against the Eucspresso contigs using the SOAP2 aligner [ 66].
Sequence reads were aligned against the turkey reference genome (UMD 2.01) using the MOSAIK aligner [ 50].
Homologous genome sequences were aligned against the matching proteins using GeneWise [ 15] for accurate spliced alignments.
The forces aligned against this are powerful.
Jews and Muslims often found themselves aligned against Christians.
