Sentence examples for had oriented from inspiring English sources

In just a few generations preceding it, every fixed point that had oriented the world for thousands of years began to wobble.

The concern for the mytho-histories that had oriented Norinaga's work influenced a number of diverse scholars, the most influential of whom was Hirata Atsutane.

His goal, he claimed, was to make it possible for contemporary "hyphenated" Jews to travel the path of return to Judaism without losing in the process all that had oriented them in their lives up to that point.

He conceived such theory as adopting a reflective perspective governed by the principle of marginal utility, namely, that ideal types ought to be constructed as if all actors "had oriented their life-plans to realize the greatest utility with minimal cost".

The scientists running the Cassini mission had to hold their breath for a while yesterday while they waited to see if the craft had successfully navigated the gap — as an extra precaution they had oriented its dish-shaped antenna in the direction of the oncoming ring particles to act as a shield, meaning the spacecraft was out of contact with Earth during the ring-plane crossing.

RhoB depletion also seemed to alter actin filament distribution: cells within colonies had reduced cortical actin filaments and instead had oriented stress fibers which appeared to connect to the discontinuous 'zipper-like' adherens junctions as described previously for endothelial cells [ 24].

Because the house sits on a busy road, the owners have oriented living toward the backyard.

"I would say it's the last 10 years that Cape May has oriented itself to attract winter visitors," Ms. Porter said.

The company says it has oriented everything it does to make Facebook more attractive — and lucrative — on mobile devices.

This action in turn presupposes that he has oriented his personal life by rectifying his heart and acquiring sincerity.

Thousands of businesses and other entities, from one-man operations to global corporations to divisions of the federal government, have made room for Christianity on the job, and in some cases have oriented themselves completely around Christian precepts.