Sentence examples for an unusual alignment from inspiring English sources

The 5-to-4 decision in the case, Florida v. Jardines, No. 11-564, feanunusual unusualignmentent of justices.

Through an unusual alignment of stars, the playwrights Theresa Rebeck, David Marshall Grant, Jacquelyn Reingold, and others working on the upcoming NBC series "Smash" — about the making of a Broadway musical — will do research next week at a developmental workshop for an actual musical opening on Broadway in December, a revival of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever".

Thanks to an unusual alignment of the planets, this year's event is even more auspicious than normal.

Voyager 2, launched Sept. 5, 1977, was put on a path that capitalized on an unusual alignment of the planets that occurs every 177 years; it would graze past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

In Rapid City, South Dakota, in 1972, an unusual alignment of winds at various levels of the atmosphere combined to produce a continuously training set of cells that dropped an enormous quantity of rain upon the same area, resulting in devastating flash flooding.

PAGE C1 YEAR-END RELEASES DRAW WELL An unusual alignment of top stars brightened Hollywood's holiday box office as Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler pushed new movies to strong openings.

They are opposed by an equally unusual alignment of Democrats who support the White House and the intervention in Libya, and more hawkish Republicans.

"It's a rather unusual alignment," said John C. Brittain, a lawyer representing the N.A.A.C.P., which, he acknowledged, has had a rocky relationship with the Bush administration.

"It's an unusual coalition".

The vote in the California case was also 5 to 4, but with a different and very unusual alignment of justices.

They are only three games over.500 after losing, 7-6 in 11 innings, to Detroit tonight, with the Tigers scoring the decisive run against an unusual defensive alignment.