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Example sentences for "orientation"

Lexicographically close words:
orientales; orientali; orientalis; orientalischen; orientated; oriented; orientem; orienting; ories; orifice
  1. I get what you're driving at--every intern needs orientation and I should be more patient and understanding.

  2. He had hoped to be able to put off this orientation lecture until the following day, when there wouldn't be so many patients jamming his appointment book.

  3. It is as though his being had been opened entirely in orientation upon the vast, sunless stretches of the world, and distended in the agony of taking up into himself the knowledge of those myriad broken lives.

  4. Ordinarily, if the cambium is wounded, the first cells formed are irregular in shape and orientation but after a wound is healed over the cambium cells resume their normal position.

  5. Frequently the color seemed to be associated with the incident rays of the sun and orientation of the twig on the branch seemed to largely control color.

  6. Crystallization, seen thus in its cosmic aspect, shows a dynamic orientation which is polarically opposite to that of the earth's seismic activities.

  7. To create this conception, a new Pro-Levitate orientation is required.

  8. Such a conception of matter was naturally absent from the age of the Contra-Levitatem orientation of the human mind.

  9. Consequently, the dynamic orientation of the material constituting its body is directed towards the interior of the body itself.

  10. The sixth lecture explains the manner of observing for, and determination of the azimuthal bearing, for the orientation of the triangulation.

  11. This same prejudice lies at the root of the idea of Functionswechsel, in spite of the general functional orientation of that idea.

  12. The idea of the Échelle des êtres had for him much less a morphological orientation than it had even for the transcendentalists, for he was lacking almost completely in the sense for morphology.

  13. Dohrn was well aware of the functional, or as he calls it, the physiological, orientation of his principle, and he rightly regarded this as one of its chief merits.

  14. I may be permitted, therefore, to consider the relation between hearing and orientation from another and more general point of view.

  15. I have already remarked that not every function of orientation can be ascribed exclusively to the labyrinth.

  16. And so it came about that it was found unpermissible to attribute all functions of orientation exclusively to the labyrinth.

  17. Her orientation was usually vague but sometimes she gave fair answers.

  18. In milder cases difficulties in orientation may be more or less marked; or there may be incapacity to think out problems, although the orientation is perfect.

  19. In the forenoon, after she had presented a rather immobile expression and had answered a few orientation questions correctly, she suddenly beckoned into space, then shook her fist in a threatening manner.

  20. The orientation during these days was not markedly disordered, when one got down to it.

  21. Her orientation gradually improved so that, although it remained vague, it was no longer glaringly inaccurate.

  22. Although her orientation was not seriously affected, there was considerable interference with her intellectual processes, as shown in her wrong answers or her lack of answers when more difficult questions were asked.

  23. The imploring to cut her head off was then several times repeated, and she could not be made to answer orientation questions.

  24. As to her orientation the few answers obtained showed that at times she knew the name of the place and the day, again she gave wrong answers (Bellevue).

  25. She was then put to bed, and when seen she could not be made to answer orientation questions.

  26. To the usual orientation questions she gave no answers that would indicate that she knew where she was.

  27. Of paramount importance is the maintenance of equilibrium and orientation in three-dimensional space.

  28. A large background of plant research exists on the effect of orientation on plant responses.

  29. Gravity has long been known as one of the major factors influencing various life processes and the orientation of both plants and animals.

  30. The very organ which is designed specifically to furnish information on spatial orientation may malfunction in man while he is in flight.

  31. Washington, who was more sympathetic with its orientation than he had been with either the Niagara Movement or the N.

  32. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, decided that the union movement must break away from its craft orientation and begin to organize the new mass production industries on an industry-wide basis.

  33. And zero gee is so devoid of orientation that it gives the sensation of falling endlessly until you get used to it.

  34. We can change McGuire's orientation in that respect, but we'd rather not have to go through that.

  35. And a question for you to consider is, which orientation actually is correct?

  36. Because of the differing background and orientation of those of us who attempted this project, two approaches were adopted.

  37. Lateral line scales show no pores, and except for slight irregularities in the orientation and length of the posterior ridges, closely resemble the others.

  38. Orientation with respect to dorsal and ventral surfaces is uncertain.

  39. The exact orientation in the fish is uncertain, but if the median extension is really horizontal, then the posterior expansion is directed caudally.

  40. Orientation of these is unknown, but they probably fitted against the ventral surface of the ventral process of the endopterygoid (Moy-Thomas, 1937:fig.

  41. The great pyramids of the Sun and Moon on the Mexican plateau and the similarity of their design and orientation with the Egyptian all point to an interchange of ideas between the East and the West in prehistoric time.

  42. But, within these limitations, flight density may be expressed in many different ways, distinguished chiefly by the directions included and the orientation of the one-mile line with respect to them.

  43. However, many lines of that length can be included within the same set of flight paths (Figure 10); and the number of birds intercepted depends in part upon the orientation of the line.

  44. When the picture was clearest in his mind he picked out an orientation point in the distant mountains.

  45. When he came out of the water he found his orientation point and kept going.

  46. So, at least, one explanation of orientation is found by such students of orientation as Sir Norman Lockyer.

  47. Among other things, this orientation of the temples served to fix and help the great annual festival of the New Year.

  48. The fact of orientation links up with the fact that there early arose a close association between various gods and the sun and various fixed stars.

  49. These folds account for the orientation of the interior valleys, which is remarkably uniform from the Rio Negro to the Collon Cura.

  50. This new spiritual orientation has to a certain extent influenced teaching; and though without a general programme of substantial reforms, the ideal of education has been transformed along idealistic lines.

  51. I tried to make it clear that our conception is not devoid of practical import, and that it does lead to a reform in education and to a new orientation of the school.

  52. The orientation of the dolmens varied considerably, but the cover-slab was never placed in such a way that its length ran up the hill-slope, probably because in moving the slab into place this would have been an awkward position.

  53. The abnormal orientation was here clearly determined by the desire to make use of the face of rock in the construction.

  54. These arrangements are modified in various ways, but they are always upon the same genera lines as the orientation of the tombs themselves.

  55. The four slopes of the pyramid faced to the cardinal points, simply because the orientation of the tomb was habitual with the Egyptians; we have already explained its meaning.

  56. To that empire his just and statesmanlike policy brought a new sense of confidence and therefore a time of comparative rest, until the threatening orientation of Bonaparte's plans once more placed everything at hazard.

  57. Already he had laid his plans to seize Egypt, and now strongly advised the orientation of French policy.

  58. In this orientation of Hapsburg policy Thugut did but follow the impulse first imparted by Hertzberg at Berlin.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orientation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodation; adaptation; adjustment; aim; alignment; aspect; attitude; azimuth; bearing; bearings; bent; conditioning; course; current; drift; exposure; fix; frontage; habituation; hardening; heading; inclination; lay; lie; line; naturalization; navigation; orientation; pilotage; point; position; posture; quarter; range; run; seasoning; site; steering; taming; temper; tendency; tenor; track; training; trend; way