Following the subsidence of the excitement attending the separation the party alignments of earlier days tended rapidly to reappear.
If forming column of platoons, platoon leaders verify the alignment before taking their posts; the captain commands front when the alignments have been verified.
The alignments are executed as prescribed in the School of the Squad, the guide being established instead of the flank file.
When the open sight is used the above diagram shows the correct alignments of the rear sight notch, front sight and the bull's-eye.
The Nanga, the open-air temple in which the Mbaki was celebrated, has more than a slight resemblance to the alignments at Carnac in Brittany and Merivale on Dartmoor.
Footnote 57: The alignments at Carnac in Brittany and Merivale on Dartmoor are suggestive of the rites of the Mbaki.
At the middle of the west end there is another entrance, and there are gaps in the alignments every six or eight feet to permit people to leave the enclosure informally during the celebration of the rites.
The alignments of Erdeven, which succeed those of Carnac, extend for a length of more than a mile and a half.
What is really certain, however, is that a definite plan was evidently followed, the distances between the alignments tallying exactly; the menhirs being set up in straight parallel lines gradually decreasing in size towards the east.
We have already given the dimensions of the stones forming the alignments at Carnac.
In other cases, in England and the land of Moab for instance, alignments simply lead to cromlechs; whilst in some few cases, as at Stennis (Fig.
Probably, besides the alignments or stone avenues, there are not more than twenty still standing.
Alignments are groups of menhirs set up in one or wore rows.
The Khassias of India make cromlechs of large, flat unhewn stones, some six to seven feet high, and the Angami-Nagas of the extreme north of British India set up extensive alignments of menhirs, similar to those of France.
These alignments are the work of Mr. Magnus Spence; readers must choose what importance they will assign to them.
A series of measurements and alignments have been taken to connect the Maeshowe tumulus with the Ring of Brogar.
The dolmens and allées couvertes were sepulchres, family or tribal; and the alignments consist of stones erected by members of the tribe or families belonging to the tribe in honour of the several dead who were laid in the dolmens.
From the windmill to the west alignments running S.
From the summit the alignmentsof Carnac can be seen on the north.
To the south the ground is strewn with ruined dolmens and menhirs either fallen or standing, relics of alignments that have been plundered.
At the mill of Gueldro the alignmentsrecommence in seven or eight rows, and run on to Keroué and Kervelhué.
Alignments of quartz blocks standing on others in which are cavities that have been found to contain ashes.
The upright stones which form the outer walls are from eighteen inches to three feet high, but as they do not always touch they may be described as alignments rather than walls.
The long walls or alignments run east and west, the short ones north and south; but the orientation is not very exact.
If forming column of platoons, platoon leaders verify the alignment before taking their posts; the captain commands =front= when the alignments have been verified.
A recognition of what an incubus it is should make us hospitable to all those devices which aim at making politics responsive by disturbing the alignments of habit.
In ways like these we shall go on inventing methods by which the fictitious party alignmentscan be dissolved.
Abbreviations on maps Advance guards Advance party of advance guard Advice to riflemen Aiming rifle Alignments Ammunition Arm signals Arms.
If forming column of platoons, platoon leaders verify the alignment before taking their posts; the captain commands front when the alignments have been verified.
The great alignments of Brittany and of Dartmoor are well known, though the reason for their erection is doubtful.
But circles and alignments belong especially to Brittany, Great Britain, and Scandinavia.
Finally the great monument with its circle and alignmentsseems to have become a temple, and the body, placed in a small cyst or vault, is completely buried, or is burned.
Moreover, the shifting alignments of Chinese wars within the nominal organization of the Republic were so confused as to make almost anything but order seem possible.
The studies predicted that politically independent nation-states would create multilateral alignments and conflicting societies, lifestyles and philosophies.
The service areas change constantly in keeping with thealignments and dynamics of planets and their satellites, traffic-lane management, neutralizing debris intrusions, and conventional and spunnel teleport maintenance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alignments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
