1.   In a world of shifting political alliances, it has always been true that where you stand depends on where you sit.

2.   Perhaps local politics needs to be seen as a series of shifting alliances, varying over time and from issue to issue.

3.   There has been a pattern of shifting alliances in the political world.

4.   Business-to-business software products seem to metamorphosize monthly amid a roiling mass of shifting corporate alliances.

5.   Declining budgets make for shifting alliances.

6.   Shifting alliances has been an underlying theme at trial.

7.   Since the NFL meetings in Phoenix, officials have been wary of Ovitz shifting his alliance.

8.   That agreement set up a series of steps toward reconciliation in Congo, which has been caught in a prolonged war of shifting alliances for more than five years.

9.   The new cooperation with the government in Phnom Penh is only the latest chapter in a long history of shifting alliances.