It was an unusual reversal of traditional political alignments in the debate over how far the government should go to deter terrorism.

The war shattered the traditional alignments within the state Republican party.

Or does he reinsert Gates in the starting lineup and return to the more traditional alignment Cincinnati utilized before?

From coast to coast, coaches are moving away from traditional alignments to take advantage of players' skills and to befuddle opponents.

India's domestic politics also took new shape, as traditional alignments by caste, creed, and ethnicity gave way to a plethora of small, regionally-based political parties.

The building has a traditional west-east alignment.

The two center pods are the only ones in the traditional side-by-side alignment, except that they both face backward.

By the time of the dissolution of the National Front, traditional political alignments had begun to fragment.

Football and wrestling are sports specific and do not fall into the traditional divisional alignments.

Both have their own interests and traditional alignments in many parts of the world, including the Middle East.