Sentence examples for to be oriented towards from inspiring English sources

While these three passages are different in detail, the picture that emerges from them is one on which what we are meant to do is to orient ourselves towards what is of genuine value and, perhaps as a consequence, to aim at the well-being of the cosmos as a whole, rather than to be oriented towards our own narrowly-construed good or the good of particular individuals as such.

[Macdonald] consistently allows the senators' questions to be oriented towards attacking the commission".

Such communities tend to be oriented towards maximizing the effectiveness of light energy while switching to light-independent processes (for example, chemolithoautotrophy, phagotrophy and heterotrophic utilization of storage compounds) to survive the cold, dark winter.

This, in fact, appears to be the policy the Obama administration has selected.Whatever policy emerges on dealing with ISIS, it's clear that America's long-term strategy for the Middle East has to be oriented towards letting local powers settle the geopolitical balance themselves.

Always within this pragmatism, we have to be oriented towards getting results and understand why we are doing things.

Dealing with them requires research, development and innovation to be oriented towards needs, demands and expectations of society.

Post-1992 universities tend to be oriented more towards the world of work, and have a more vocational leaning.

For at least 50 years, it has been well known among academics specialized in risk research that the essence of any DRR policy needs to be oriented substantively towards reducing social vulnerability.

As Honey et al. (2014) pointed out, the potential for STEM integration in advancing mathematics learning is less apparent than for science; even engineering-based problems tend to be oriented largely towards the science strand at the expense of mathematics (Honey et al. 2014; Walkington et al. 2014).

Development performance indicators need to be oriented more towards social outcomes, not economic.

So for me it's all about what one does as opposed to what one might be oriented towards doing.