Indeed, our talent for hiding the truth from ourselves - designed to provide social benefits, specifically the ability to exploit others with conflicting goals - can make us quite socially vulnerable: if we are found out, 'Your entire environment may be oriented against you, all with superior knowledge, while you peer out, ignorant and hobbled by self-deception' (p. 176).
Although this radar's present configuration is oriented toward defense against North Korean missiles, it would only take hours to convert the system software into a configuration that would improve the effectiveness of U.S. strategic defenses based in Alaska and California against Chinese ICBMs by providing earlier tracking data on their launches toward the United States.
Both the buckling and fatigue load constraints had significant influence over the design of tubular members and joints, while each component is oriented to maximize the utilization against the prescribed limit state functions.
This approach is oriented directly to arterial function improvement and represents a simple preventive approach against arterial aging.
While Washington is oriented toward exports, nearby Seattle was also the site of last year's violent protests against the World Trade Organization.
The U.S. is oriented toward the future.
Betsy McLaughlin, chief executive of the Hot Topic chain of clothing stores, which are oriented toward teenagers, decided against locating one of her 409 branches on the Strip itself.
Initially, all ESTs from a redundant database consisting of 834,732 Brassica EST entries (from the A and C genome brassicas B. napus, B. oleracea, B. rapa) were oriented by blastx alignment against the A. thaliana TAIR7 proteome (cut-off value 1e-6).
To protect the supply chain of pharmaceutical products from the intrusion of counterfeit medicines, distributors and wholesalers should be oriented and sensitised to countermeasures against counterfeit medicines.
But he did believe that certain battles against ignorance had been decisively won, and that humankind was oriented firmly toward progress.
