"alignments" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe the arrangement of people or objects in order or agreement. For example, "The students aligned themselves along the wall" or "The man adjusted the parts to the correct alignments".
As before, the pattern of new alignments will not emerge until independents start to show their colours; though half the seats are filled by parties competing on national lists, the other half, in first-past-the-post constituencies, will contain many candidates, especially from the remoter regions, whose allegiances will be uncertain.
A bigger worry would come if the CIS proved an incubator for alignments against it.
The rest of the world should realise what this evolution means, if it continues: eventual regional alignments which, even if they fall far short of Europe's integration, will be sufficiently advanced to create the tripartite world that has been expected, or feared, for some time.An East Asian economic grouping could have many implications for the global system.
Economic migrants are meant to be sent home, though that is often impossible.The human tide ebbs and flows according to the season, distant conflicts, political alignments in north Africa, the deployment of Europe's defences and the guile of people-smugglers.
A cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax, of course, would make such alignments more commonplace.
But the error turns out to correspond closely with the observed errors in the pyramids' positions: the further their estimated dates of construction are from this window of accuracy, the larger the errors in their alignments.
But the political alignments don't bear that thesis out very well.
"Many mafia bosses are worried about what might happen next and are revising their dormant alignments".
Given the dramatic changes in the global economy marked by the rise of the emerging world, it is hard to imagine that prevailing currency alignments can survive.
Rather than simply alternating between one of two infield alignments normal positioning and a "Williams Shift"—Tampa Bay has studied where each opposing batter tends to hit the ball and concentrated their infielders in those areas, even against right-handed hitters.The results have been remarkable.
Dunes spread from the Sahara and over the Kalahari, for example, and their fossilized alignments now vegetated can be traced across the thorny woodlands and grasslands of Niger, Nigeria, Namibia, and Botswana.
