It represents a fundamental realignment on Wall Street, one that is likely to result in investment houses being smaller, more specialized and more humble in their aims.

Mr. Shapiro said that he and other lawyers in the case were continually discussing who would do what, particularly as the trial nears and that there had been no fundamental realignment of responsibilities.

A year ago, the White House regarded this election as an opportunity to create a fundamental realignment that would leave the Republicans the dominant party.

More likely it will be the shift of power to state capitals, a fundamental realignment that is already unleashing unpredictable new forces.

"What we are doing now is a fundamental realignment."

Lebanon is in the middle of a political crisis that is not just a matter of jockeying for power, but a fundamental realignment of authority here - and perhaps in the region.

The reanalysis accepts and builds on a recent, fundamental realignment of all living things into three basic groups: simple bacteria, archaea and eukarya (or eukaryotes).

They reflect a fundamental realignment on Wall Street that could result in firms being smaller, more specialized and more humble in their aims.

This would produce the 'fundamental realignment on the Left' which Paddy Ashdown has said would be the inevitable result of a fourth Labour defeat.

A1 Political Upheaval in Lebanon Lebanon is in the middle of a political crisis facing a fundamental realignment of authority.