Orients

They are facing a long-term dead end, and nothing can stop that unless the party fundamentally re-orients what it is and who it appeals to. ❋ Jonathan Weiler (2010)

It orients us to finding value and meaning in our experience. ❋ Steven Crandell (2011)

“Music orients us to the place and provides the creative spark for ourselves and the whole city,” she said. ❋ Olga Bonfiglio (2010)

"Sense of direction" is over-rated and no human orients automatically like a homing pigeon can on an overcast day. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The original extension orients the site and the code horizontally. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unlike then, management of the news media orients now more toward officials than journalists, and conventions like military embedding and bias against anonymous sources neutralize much of journalists' autonomy, complicating their capacity to forge a workable balance between disclosure and secrecy. ❋ Barbie Zelizer (2011)

Nevertheless, King (45) states that ‘‘this historical predisposition of eukaryotes to the unicellular lifestyle begs the question of what selective advantages might have been conferred by the transition to multicellularity;’’ and Jacob (46) argues that ‘‘it is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species.’’ ❋ Unknown (2009)

It orients us outwardly to social competition for identity, job, consumer goods and a mate. ❋ John Stanley (2012)

Play games: Word games, bingo, guessing games -- anything that gets the brain actively engaged and orients a person to their surroundings. ❋ Kathryn Haslanger (2011)

Rich with newly declassified documents, photos and artifacts—from the identification, knife and comb Eichmann carried while kidnapped in 1960, to the bulletproof glass booth in which he was tried in 1961 and sentenced to death—the exhibition quickly orients even the uninformed, leading rhythmically along a path of several 90-degree turns that take visitors from stage to stage along this tale's 14-year evolution. ❋ Amotz Asa-El (2012)

Some of these deficiencies can be overcome if Congress orients the new cooperative towards greater efficiency and care quality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If the bee orients her waggle* 90° to the left of vertical … (Mark Ridley, Animal Behaviour) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Annoying [used car] [huckster] in [Phoenix], heard recently on the radio: "We're customer orientated..." ❋ Workinglate (2006)

[i'm looking] for a [thai] restaurant. is there an orienteer [in the house]? ❋ Lexicali Slim (2009)

I'm [going] orienteering [today]. ❋ K90 (2007)

[Orientalism] is [historically] an expression of the [curiosity] of an imperialistic mindset, though this is becoming less so. ❋ LudwigVan (2003)

Correct usage: There's an [Oriental rug] store on Derbe Drive. or Are you going to the [Oriental] market? Incorrect usage: Is that dude [oriental]? or Orientals are known to be [bad drivers]. ❋ Sean-Paul (2003)

I went to orientation to become [orientated]. I'm not redneck-orientated. I know how to speak English. Everytime I hear the word "[Orientated]" I want to cringe. It's as bad as hearing the word "ain't" or "[warsh]." ❋ MadamexXx (2009)

1. "Oriental" is a term generally applied to the "race"/ethnicities that inhabit the region from [Myanmar] (formerly [Burma]) all the way to Korea and Japan. It's a term referring to geography ("East") and is not an offensive or slur word. Some politically correct people in America think it is but I've known some Koreans, Japanese, Vietnamese and others from [the Orient] in college and they do not find the word to be offensive at all. 2. There are groceries and restaurants that specialize in [East Asian] food. Many of them use the word "Oriental" on their signs, so apparently they don't see that word as a racial slam, do they? 3. [Rugs] made in Iran or India are still called "Oriental [rugs]". They are nice, huge, heavy and expensive. 4. There's been an Oriental presence and influence in America for a long time. There are Chinatowns, [Japanese-American] communities, Vietnamese neighborhoods and Korean neighborhoods on the West Coast states (especially California) and they have been in America for over 160 years. Like all ethnic groups here they have played an important role in making the U.S.A. the great nation that it is today. 5. Also in the Pacific West coast states the Native American peoples have oral traditions detailing of contact with Oriental people long ago. The [travellers] were probably Chinese, Japanese and others. Relations with those visitors were pretty good. 6. Oriental nations have given the world many contribution in the fields of sciences, arts, military strategy, medicine and more. ❋ I Saw U2 Live Twice (2009)

UK Person: Look at those Oriental people over there. US Person: You shouldn't call them Oriental. You should call them Asian. UK Person: But they're Japanese. They aren't Indian. They're Oriental. US Person: [Rugs] are Oriental. People are not. UK Person: YOU are a [rug]. Learn more about the English language outside of [your stupid] country. ❋ Kijsjaan08 (2008)

The [honky] suffers from [Orientalism]. ❋ Ding Dong (2004)

[Oriental] [rugs] come from [Persia] ❋ Slk (2004)