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  • - El principio histórico de la separación del Estado y las iglesias orienta las normas contenidas en el presente artículo.

    Clerical Garb, a Matter of Habit? 2007

  • Mas os erros servem também para mostrar o tipo de cultura e de valores que orienta o comportamento dos repórteres e apresentadores.

    Amid Brazil's Flood, Bloggers Form Solidarity Networks 2008

  • Su actividad literaria se orienta sobre todo hacia la poesía original y la traducción de literatura poética, filosófica y espiritual del mundo.

    veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008

  • The reasons for this new orienta - tion are multiple, but the most important seem to be the following: the prodigious development of Saus - surean linguistics and of phonology; the prominence of “formalism”; the discovery by Western scholars of

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MIRCEA ELIADE 1968

  • Scientists of an experimental and physical orienta - tion came face to face with the great subject of the nature of lumen and color, a subject which was of interest not only from the scientific but also from the philosophical point of view.

    OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968

  • The investigations followed mainly two orienta - tions: historical, and morphological or structural.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MIRCEA ELIADE 1968

  • Harry Levin also conceives of literary criticism in broadly cultural terms, viewing literature “as an insti - tution,” but is relativistic and historistic in his orienta - tion.

    LITERARY CRITICISM REN 1968

  • Taken collectively, their authors formed a school whose philosophical orienta - tion has been characterized as the “metaphysics of light,” but which did not preclude their doing pioneer work in experimental methodology.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

  • The effect of this orienta - tion on Christian thinkers was to heighten interest in other religions and to foster syncretistic approaches.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID LARRIMORE HOLLAND 1968

  • La vento orienta auxdis la diron kaj gxi venis kontraux la ventoflagon.

    A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922

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