But even the major party designations demonstrate how the abortion issue scrambles traditional alliances.

Total Chaos' Perhaps even more alarming was the sense that traditional alliances had broken down.

The Governor did not trust them, despite their traditional alliance with Portugal.

The issues are so complex that traditional ideological alliances have been scrambled.

"The traditional alliance hasn't broken down," he said.

The policy of the Hats party was a return to the traditional alliance between France and Sweden.

The army's political influence at the top is reinforced by its traditional alliance with another beleaguered and conservative institution, the Communist Party.

There is no central, all powerful authority but every state or principality respected the traditional alliance termed Kangiginawai.

The traditional alliances are no longer a sure thing, if they ever really were.

Reactions sometimes followed the pattern of traditional alliances.