For instance, whereas a sponge should have the same orientation as the to-be cleaned plate, the scissors should be oriented orthogonally to the piece of paper one wants to cut.
Rooms that are in fairly steady daytime use should be oriented to get the maximum amount of winter sunlight.
Or it could be sunlight, as passive houses should be oriented to maximize exposure to the sun's rays.
"I hope that the people of Mexico can enter this door unburdened by the prejudice that artistic creation should be oriented in a single direction".
In the Northern Hemisphere, buildings should be oriented so their longest wall faces directly south with plenty of windows to let in the sun.
Looking at today's problem through the lens of our great constitutional experiment, it emerges that there is no single, enduring answer to which way the Constitution should be oriented, inward or outward.
In short, the international community should be oriented toward preventing atrocities before they get under way by helping the state in question, and only in extreme cases by using military force.
Unique decisions abound for instance, whether one connection should be slightly wider than another connection, whether one resistor should be oriented parallel or perpendicular to another, or whether one wire can lie over the top of another.
America's retirement policy should be oriented toward the long term.
The most compliant axis of the biomaterial should be oriented in the cranio-caudal (longitudinal) direction, and the strongest axis of the biomaterial should be oriented in the medial-lateral (transverse) direction.
Uterine anomalies are (fusion and/or absorption) defects at the uterine fundal midline and, therefore, measurements should be oriented there.
