11.   This fighting has brought yet another warring party to Sierra Leonean soil, which has been carved up by militias with shifting alliances.

12.   Those two words dramatically shifted alliances.

13.   But in a region of shifting alliances, Arafat has also found himself at odds with Arab leaders.

14.   By-election for legislative seat shows clan rivalries, shifting alliances.

15.   Government officials found themselves backing competing candidates in rapidly shifting alliances.

16.   In a sign of shifting political alliances, parliamentary committees Monday opposed moving ahead with corruption probes into Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz and one of his longtime political rivals.

17.   New patterns form with shifting alliances, manipulated by feuding warlords and predatory neighbors.

18.   The chaotic politics of nearly a dozen Kurdish factions, marked by suddenly shifting alliances of guerrilla fighters and town populations, make for an unstable society.

19.   The ethnic conflict in eastern Zaire is decades old and highly complex, involving as many as five groups in constantly shifting alliances.

20.   The signs of shifting political alliances appeared even before the confidence debate began.