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  • Orienting himself was something of a problem, but once he knew where he was, he found his way easily to the dejected block of apartments where Emilia had lived.

    Venom Joan Brady 2010

  • Orienting myself, I turned right and followed a corridor between bulkheads until I came to a wider place and a hatch recessed into the deck.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • Orienting oneself toward transcendence may be the best buffer against a world that inevitably passes away.

    Rabbi David Wolpe: A Religious View of the Fiscal Crisis 2008

  • The article is called, “Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World,” and it appears in Volume 14, issue 2 of the journal Public Culture, and was elaborated upon in a book, Desiring Arabs, published by University of Chicago Press UPDATE: BTW, I read the article, which is accessible through my GMU library account, but not the book.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » No Homosexuals in the Arab World: 2007

  • The article is called, “Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World,” and it appears in Volume 14, issue 2 of the journal Public Culture, and was elaborated upon in a book, Desiring Arabs, published by University of Chicago Press UPDATE: BTW, I read the article, which is accessible through my GMU library account, but not the book.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » 2007 » September 2007

  • Orienting reflex, you're watch TV, several different things are happening at the same time and you're getting all these different signals and all of a sudden, your brain starts adapting to getting messages that quickly and it makes it much harder to orient to things in real life.

    CNN Transcript May 8, 2007 2007

  • Orienting the maps to the compass, we cipher out the far shoreline of this morning's puzzler.

    Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth 2004

  • Orienting the left's identity around transcendent values via a strong connection to the Statue of Liberty begins to construct a new identity that is uniquely American AND global, spiritual AND religious, working-class AND elite.

    Lady Liberty 2006

  • It contains the typical Arab liberal upper class mimicry of Western liberal models and paradigms, and only confirms the criticisms that are contained in the article by my dear friend Joseph Massad in his article "Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World" published in Public Culture (2002) although Joseph fiercely attacks my article on the Study of Homosexuality in the Arab/Islamic Civilization (published in Arab Studies Journal in 1993).

    Monday, October 31, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • Orienting himself by the sun, Sulu judged that the sound was coming from a different part of the palace from where the slaughter had first begun.

    Shadow Lord Laurence Yep 2000

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