Additionally, the biostatic balance is defined as a situation when the mandible, loaded with any arrangement of forces, is not moved as well and does not change its orientation; that is, it remains in a stable position for any period of time.
Although zouk possessed an undeniably local French Antillean character, it also had an international orientation that enabled it to compete commercially with foreign genres such as reggae, soca, and especially salsa, which enjoyed a strong appeal in the French Antilles in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
"It isn't attitude and style and orientation that makes it possible to build coalitions," said Thomas Mann, a Congressional expert at the Brookings Institution.
Firms like Kwiat were given what Gould calls "direction" from the Diamond Information Center about the new ring's attributes -- multiple diamonds in a north-south orientation that distinguishes it from the look of an engagement ring, and so on.
Meech said in an email to Motherboard that the solar sail that the Harvard researchers mention is incompatible with the rotation of light curves, an orientation that makes it challenging to capture enough energy through light.
The process is epigenetic in that the earlier orientations "model" the orientations that follow them.
But they are also suffering an identity crisis, and not just because "museum," like "school" or "corporation," now encompasses a universe of places so different in size, budget and orientation that it's hard to say what links them.
Andrew Sullivan, not surprisingly, is pleased: "The court is unequivocal in arguing that our modern understanding of sexual orientation – that it is an orientation, not a choice, an identity and not an act – makes the equal protection of gay families a core value".
Ed Koch, whose brashness and authenticity about almost anything and everything came to define New York City in the seventies and eighties, would for the most part tell people who asked about his sexual orientation that it was none of their business, although it was clear that he was trying to give the impression that he was heterosexual — at least for most of his life.
For those of you who are championing Hardy's little hissy fit, I'd love to know why and what you think is so precious about his -- or your -- sexual orientation that it should remain off the record.
