A rump of the party would be certain to desert, signalling a realignment of unionism with dangers for him, and making extremely limited his ability to govern under the complex cross-community voting arrangements of the assembly.
America ratcheted up the diplomatic stakes by signalling a realignment of its priorities back towards Asia.Central to this is the Code of Conduct (COC), a document that has been tossed around and discussed between ASEAN countries and China ever since Cambodia first time as the summit's host.
Every year since independence India has invited a special guest who embodies India's strategic, economic and political interests at the time; 61 years after Indonesia's first president -- President Sukarno -- was guest of honour, the 2010 signalled a realignment of the two countries' strategic interests, with President Yudhoyono attending the event.
But did the seismic upheaval in Tuesday's election signal a political realignment?
Boyer says that this has encouraged the Republicans to stick with being the "party of no": The larger thing, I think, is an awakening on the part of the public and also, particularly, the political class, to the reality that the election last November did not signal a fundamental realignment towards the left….
Cava's announcement last week of a $300 million deal to purchase the publicly traded Zoës Kitchen signaled a major realignment in the fast-casual universe: The merger, if approved by shareholders and regulators, would create the largest Mediterranean-style restaurant chain in the country, with 327 locations in 24 states.
Ed Miliband's victory signals a deeper realignment that has happened in British politics ever since the general election of earlier this year led to no party securing an overall majority.
The significance of the PNAS article lies not so much in its specific proposals as in the possibility that it signals the start of such a realignment.
They signal a broad epistemological and organisational realignment in that they introduce new capacities to know, new criteria for what counts as good knowledge, and new ways of acting in relation to its forms of knowledge.
A recent Washington Post-ABC poll shows him winning 22% of self-described conservatives, a higher proportion than any Democratic nominee since 1980.Don't blame the ratsThe more tantalising question is whether the rise of the Obamacons signals a lasting political realignment.
"I think it's probably a realignment".
