The act of orienting or the state of being oriented.
The word "orientation" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to describe the process or action of introducing someone to a new job, environment, or situation, or to provide someone with information they need to understand a concept, topic, or skill. Example sentence: After Margaret was hired as a receptionist at the company, she attended an orientation program to learn about company policies and procedures.
"There needs to be more diversity in terms of age, race, sexual orientation in our media," said Malik.
I think those lessons are about direction and purpose and orientation of the party rather than about personalities".
While nothing is certain in life, experience of university today must surely involve students socialising with those of different national, ethnic, class, religious, political, age, physical ability, sexual and sexual orientation backgrounds.
Unfortunately, not only do many NGOs allow discrimination based on sexual orientation to happen in their countries of operation, but they even justify discriminatory attitudes with religious and cultural arguments, let alone if there is no supportive legal body in that particular country.
Hate crimes are not considered by the FBI to be "a distinct federal offense", but federal agencies frequently get involved when murder cases involve religion, race, disability and sexual orientation.
This is how they break down: 35,816 (82%) were race hate crimes 1,621 (4%) were religion hate crimes 4,252 (10%) were sexual orientation hate crimes 1,744 (4%) were disability hate crimes 315 (1%) were transgender hate crimes The data shows that the majority of all hate crimes (83%) involved violence - and the worst proportion for that was race hate crimes - 85% were violent offences.
Medieval mapmakers wanted to chart their orientation to the Garden of Eden or Mecca; Mercator wanted to make things easier for sea-faring navigators; and colonialists wanted to plot the extents of their empires.
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