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  • Preparation in the United Kingdom before D day included refresher training, exercises with partner infantry divisions, familiarization with landing craft, waterproofing of equipment for any unit that would go ashore across the beach, and orien - tation with special equipment built for the invasion.

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • You could get so orien - tal your skin turned yellow, but it wouldn't be worth a damn.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • I am confident that, through this process of dynamic and managed change, policing will ultimately be transformed into service-orien - tated, democratic policing from the community, by the community, for the community.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Raymond Schwab, La renaissance orien - tale (Paris, 1950).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas DONALD F. LACH 1968

  • A decisive factor in the long-run success of human machinism was Darwinian biology and the new orien - tations that it provoked in psychology.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

  • The basic orien - tation of this materialism was practical, and its appli - cation to social life was seen by Marx to follow in - evitably from insight into the human condition.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GEORGE LICHTHEIM 1968

  • Thus it was that the interpretations of J. Loeb (Die Tropismen, 1913) on the basis of experiments done with lower animals, estab - lished the neologist ideas of “phototropism” (orien - tation or displacement reaction in the direction of light), and of “thermotropism” (reaction directed to - wards a source of heat), to explain animal and perhaps also human behavior.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas FERNAND-LUCIEN MUELLER 1968

  • The former proton orien - transparent in order to participate mers. within a "common light" covenant tation is d r o p p e d a n d a new re - in multidimensionalrealities.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows czaragon 2009

  • Situational Applications provide rich information and data visualization aids for decision-orien ...

    Latest News from AJAX & RIA Journal 2008

  • It feels too much like Perl and it's [...] > isinstance (5, object) True Lars, I think you are mist aking syntax for "object orien ted-ness".

    Planet Python 2008

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