Sentence examples for this basic orientation from inspiring English sources

If more financial institutions had this basic orientation to doing business, we wouldn't have had the credit meltdown because people would have known exactly the risks of agreeing to ARMs and zero-down mortgages.

That's why it's good early in a relationship to have a serious 'values discussion,' because this basic orientation toward what matters most is unlikely to change".― Karl Pillemer, professor of human development at Cornell University and author of 30 Lessons for Loving.

Terror has not altered the basic life of Israelis, and it's not going to change the basic orientation and travel plans for committed American Jewish people".

They lead to completely different consequences in the basic orientation of Christians toward fellow Christians and fellow human beings.

But such a proposition runs counter to the basic orientation of the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, which specializes in making harmonically elaborate Arthurian castles out of small-group jazz tunes.

The bank's governing council is already filled with members who oppose inflation, and that basic orientation is not likely to change.

But it would probably have more resonance if the basic orientation of the Republican base was not also to ignore the rest of the world until it was time to bomb them.

Boake emphasizes the basics; expensive dynamic windows may not help as much as the basic orientation of a building to the sun, she notes.

Therefore, it is necessary to rethink the basic orientation, and the institutions and policies related to ethnic relations in today's China.

Arguably his most profound influence on analytic philosophy has not been to give us particular philosophical doctrines, but to contribute to the basic shape, the basic orientation of an entire major subdiscipline of philosophy.

However, trainings were described as inconsistent and insufficient, and some groups of CHWs did not attend any training programmes beyond the basic orientation programme.