Sentence examples for own orientation from inspiring English sources

Earlier elaboration on the concept of aspiration can however be found in Lewin's field theory, as a starting point of a tradition in social psychology that has referred to aspiration as "the cognitive orientational aspect of goal-directed behaviour" – or more simply, as "ego's own orientation to a goal" (Haller, 1968, p. 484).

Her own orientation is visual, and that strongly affects her idea of what is acceptable as a piece of writing.

"Prayer is really as much about our own orientation as it is about changing God's mind," she said.

The difference may, of course, be a question of my own orientation: I'm habituated to the way a given experience is encoded in language.

Each fibre medium, characterised by its own orientation of fibres and volume fraction, is considered as a one-dimensional elastic medium.

Individually, each atom is free to choose its own orientation; but because of the magnetic forces between them, all the atoms tend to align their needles.

In Strasbourg, however, the tracking decision was a result of a combination of students' grades, their own orientations, and their family's aspirations.

Actors within these settings can easily be asked about the structural characteristics of the environments as well as about their own orientations.

Thus, the CHWs, despite having performed his or her job, would sit helplessly by the ineffectiveness of his or her own orientations.

This study shows that one's own sexual orientation is one such influence, although previous research has shown that sexual orientation itself is substantially genetically influenced (e.g. Kendler et al. 2000; Kirk et al. 2000).

Each and every one of us, no matter what our own sexual orientation may be or how we may identify, has had to forge that sexual orientation or identity in the long shadow of heterosexuality.