The phrase "positioned alongside" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the location of an object or person relative to another object or person. For example: The front gate was positioned alongside a tall brick wall.
The new satellite, built by Boeing Satellite Systems, will be positioned alongside the three satellites currently parked at 101 degrees.
As it turned out, a player identified as Jack Burns — who did not make the team — was positioned alongside Rucker in the team photograph.
The capsules have no windows and the explorers' only contact with the outside world will be via an internal email system and a delayed radio link to the "control centre" positioned alongside the GEC.
If the network late-night wheel swings again, Mr. Stewart, who is 41, would seem to be positioned alongside Mr. O'Brien in the line for the next 11 35 ride.
Editors originally aimed to attract readers by getting the magazine positioned alongside 90s lads' mags but focus groups, audience research and cover trials have shown a shift in attitudes.
Commonly positioned alongside Bartok and Kodaly in a triumvirate of towering figures in Hungarian musical life during the early 20th century, Dohnanyi was the most stylistically conservative of the three.
For example, Duquette said the Washington Nationals could use a new shortstop to position alongside Ryan Zimmerman, the team's star third baseman.
In 1984, for instance, "Nazca Lines Star Chart" was included in "Primitivism in 20th Century Art," at the Museum of Modern Art, a controversial exhibition that positioned her alongside Modern masters like Gauguin and Picasso and the indigenous artworks that inspired them.
Throw in the fact that the zoom control is just a tiny switch positioned awkwardly alongside the shutter button, and the oohs and aahs the Cyber-shot elicits at first sight quickly turn to groans of frustration.
The Blair government's firm view was that Britain must position itself alongside the US, hopefully for the good.
The government's rhetoric frequently positions itself alongside the issue of relations between the human rights permitted to the wealthy and the despotism imposed by poverty.
