Homeland Security officials vehemently dispute Mr. Crane's view of their enforcement record, saying he has used the guise of labor advocacy to pursue his own political agenda, aligning squarely with the most right-wing opponents of the overhaul.
Paul Gigot says that if Obama wants "an election issue" he'll try to do something "big" about jobs, but if he wants to "get something done" he'll...uhm...propose a tax reform package that aligns squarely with GOP orthodoxy.
Disconnected from the views in their pews, the bishops have aligned themselves squarely with birth control foes.
His comments aligned him squarely with a House financial reform bill, which calls for an inter-agency council to police systemic risk among large financial institutions, relying heavily on the Fed as an agent for executing policy.
He aligned himself squarely with the prosecutors, who were faced with defense arguments that the plotters had intended only to set off minor explosions at a terminal at London's Heathrow Airport to attract attention to Muslim grievances over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and not to kill people or attack airliners.
In saying he would vote for Mr. Obama over Mr. McCain, Mr. Powell aligned himself squarely against Mr. Bush, who has been counting on a Republican victory next month to see through his strategy of avoiding a rigid timetable for withdrawals in Iraq — the issue, more than any other, on which the president's legacy will rest.
Though not legally necessary, a referendum on the new electoral system would align squarely with the spirit of the new government, which was elected on hopeful promises of openness, inclusion and greater participation in the hard work of making Canada even better.
When reciting facts, as opposed to making judgments, the pope aligns himself squarely with mainstream scientific thinking.
But Mr. Suleiman followed Mr. Mubarak on television, aligning himself squarely with his boss, urging the protesters to decamp, go back to work and stop watching foreign satellite TV channels.
Union Atlantic, the first novel by Adam Haslett, who made his name with the Pulitzer- and National Book Award-nominated story collection You Are Not A Stranger Here (2002), has a blurb from Franzen and aligns itself squarely with his way of thinking.
