The phrase "alter the position of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes in location, arrangement, or status of an object or concept.
Example: "To improve the flow of traffic, we need to alter the position of the stop signs at the intersection."
Alternatives: "change the location of" or "adjust the placement of".
The leucine104 is located only 4 Å from glutamic acid 334; replacing it by a large, positively charged arginine would alter the position of site II.
Skiving can alter the position of the intended hole or result in damage to surrounding tissues.
"That is a significant difference and it is unlikely that any adjustment to the final figures will alter the position of the two countries".
In other words, changes to a single menu item alter the means of the related variables and artificially alter the position of other menu items.
The League Managers Association condemned Pardew's reaction and the chief executive, Richard Bevan, revealed that the organisation has been in discussions to alter the position of touchline technical areas to take managers further away from the action.
Virtually all of the pre-Wright brothers glider pilots, including Lilienthal, used hang-gliding techniques, in which the pilot shifted his weight in order to alter the position of the centre of gravity of the machine with regard to the centre of pressure.
And if it does happen, it could drastically alter the positioning of some of the top players currently operating, including Square, PayPal and many more.
Extending the residue-equivalent method to these diagrams would subtly alter the positions of the predominance field boundaries, more so for reactions between proteins that differ significantly in length.
Incorporation of Eu3+ did not appreciably alter the positions of the PLE bands but significantly increased the intensities of the inner transitions of Cr3+, with I410/I273 increasing from 0.18 to 0.56.
Third, transcriptional-dependent processes have been shown to alter the positions of nucleosomes in yeast in vivo relative to the in vitro preferred positions, which are dictated by DNA sequence alone [13], [14], [22].
This does not alter the positions of the three transitions but does alter their relative proportions where the area of all three transitions is reduced by 55%.
