In our current literary culture, we're used to encountering allegiances based upon a writer's gender or race or sexual orientation, but ties of geography are generally far less compelling.
A subsequent, general rejection of that brainy orientation remains tied to it as a shift of emphasis in the formula "theory and practice".
Iran, which borders both, is the biggest wildcard; although Shiite Muslim like Azerbaijan, Tehran reviles Baku because of Azerbaijan's secular orientation, its close ties with Israel, and fears about separatist tendencies among Iran's large Azeri minority.
Their dominant recreation and amenity orientation is also tied to their mountain setting.
The AEI's Western orientation led to improved ties with the EU, opening the door to hundreds of millions of dollars in development aid.
Organizational learning theory suggests that firms that internationalize after they are established domestically must overcome a domestic orientation, internal domestic political ties, and domestic decision making inertia in order to enter foreign markets.
During its three-year rule, the group terrorized local residents, conducting well-publicized executions of people targeted for their perceived opposition, government ties, sexual orientation and more.
Advances in Learning Analytics (LA) are employed to support the evolution of this extended social structure in order to match learners within higher education contexts and their predicted career orientation, while reinforcing joint social ties (with other similar learners) to support global intelligence about common practices of the predicted profession.
Qualifying groups include those made up of individuals who share particular characteristics, such as color, kinship ties, or sexual orientation, or those individuals who share a particular experience, such as former gang or military members, former police officers or prosecutors, or former land owners.
Tapas calculates the purely relative orientation of images, using observed tie points as the only input.
Oregon's law protects interns from sexual harassment and discrimination based on race, religion, gender, disability, and sexual orientation and covers wrongful termination tied to discrimination — but it doesn't create an employment relationship or impact wages, an issue the state was careful to avoid, according to Avakian.
