Orient Sentence Examples

The forest swallowed the city before she could orient herself.

Deciding to use the sun to orient herself, she detoured around several dense patches of blackberry bushes.

Her eyes flew up to the guard as she sought to orient herself once again.

The Caspian remained; and it had for long been a common saying with foreign merchants that the best way of tapping the riches of the Orient was to secure possession of this vast inland lake.

They first brought the products and arts of the Orient into western Europe; and in the Netherlands, by the impulse that they gave to commerce, they were one of the primary causes of the rise of the chartered towns.

In the Orient the condition of the Jews has been much improved by the activity of Western organizations, of which something is said in a later paragraph.

Sheer terror every time Orient crossed the half way line.

Route reconnaissance may orient on a road or on an axis of advance.

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The orient is the rainbow of colors you can see in pearls, indicators of high quality.

A train trip on the Orient Express, relaxing on the bluest water imaginable or enjoying the European lifestyle are just a few of the many vacation opportunities offered.

While active solar can be added onto any existing structure, passive solar can only be capture through the use of certain design processes that orient the building toward the sun.

If you've recently returned from a trip to the Orient or if you simply enjoy the culture of Japan, you might like making a Japanese scrapbook album.

He found that they were wholly inadequate, and summed up his views in a remarkable letter to the Directory (23rd of February), wherein he pointed out two possible alternatives to an invasion of England, namely, a conquest of the coast of the north-west of Germany, for the cutting off of British commerce with central Europe, or the undertaking of an expedition to the Orient which would be equally ruinous to British trade.

It is certain that he was preparing to renew the struggle for the mastery of the seas and of the Orient, which must break out if he held to his present resolve to found a great colonial empire.

Someone who works in an office may only have five minutes to relieve their stress and orient him or herself for the day.

Although it's possible to find many artistic variations of the yin yang symbol, there is really only one correct way to orient the two halves.

The Chinese consider south the cardinal direction to orient by, so it's found at the top of the symbol.

Orient the shape so the end with the loose flaps is facing you.

If that end could not be achieved by massing the continental states against her in a solid phalanx of commercial war, then Napoleon intended to ensure her ruin by that other enterprise which he had in view early in 1798 (see his letter of the 23rd of February 1798), namely the conquest of the Orient.

The Orient was, indeed, ever the magnet which attracted him most; and his hostility to England may be attributed to his perception that she alone stood in the way of his most cherished schemes.

In vain did he seek to dazzle the tsar by assembling about him the vassal kings and princes of Germany; in vain did he exercise all the intellectual gifts which had captivated the tsar at Tilsit; in vain did he conjure up visions of the future conquest of the Orient; external display, diplomatic finesse, varied by one or two outbursts of calculated violence - all was useless.

He did much to justify the trust placed in him, for the period of Frederick Henry is the most brilliant in the history of the Dutch Republic. During his time the East India Company, which had founded the town of Batavia in Java as their administrative capital, under a succession of able governorgenerals almost monopolized the trade of the entire Orient, made many conquests and established a network of factories and trade posts stretching from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan (see Dutch East India Company).

It is served by the Union Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the 'Frisco System, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chicago Great Western, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, the Chicago & Alton, the Wabash, the Kansas City Southern, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the Leavenworth, Kansas & Western, the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient, the St Louis, Kansas City & Colorado, the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City, and the St Joseph & Grand Island railways, and by steamboat lines to numerous river ports.

In a prayer addressed to " First birth of my birth, first beginning (or principle) of my beginning, first spirit of the spirit in me," he prays " to be restored to his deathless birth (genesis), albeit he is let a.nd hindered by his underlying nature, to the end that according to the pressing need and spur of his longing he may gaze upon the deathless principle with deathless spirit, through the deathless water, through the solid and the air; that he may be re-born through reason (or idea), that he may be consecrated, and the holy spirit breathe in"him, that he may admire the holy fire, that he may behold the abyss of the Orient, dread water, and that he may be heard of the quickening and circumambient ether; for this day he is about to gaze on the revealed reality with deathless eyes; a mortal born of mortal womb, he has been enhanced in excellence by the might of the All-powerful and by the right hand of the Deathless one," &c.

Religious faith, love of adventure, the hope of making advantageous conquests, anticipations of a promised paradise all combined to force this advance upon the Orient, which though failing to rescue the sepulchre of Christ, the ephemeral kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus, the dukedom of Athens, or the Latin empire of Constantinople, yet gained for France that prestige for military glory and religious piety which for centuries constituted her strength in the Levant (see CRUSADES).

Asian-inspired proms can bring a whole different feeling with themes like "Rocking the Orient," "Eastern Sunset," and "An Oriental Night."

Designer white pants don't get much more customized than the white pants from Good Orient.

Whether you play the regular guitar already or are completely new to the guitar, the information below will help you orient yourself to your new instrument.

Kimonos have evolved from the heavy silk garments of the Orient to lighter-weight kimonos in a wide variety of fabrics from silk to polyester.

At strategic locations throughout the park - near restrooms, along the Main Midway, and at prominent intersections - guests will find "you are here" maps they can use to orient themselves.

When you arrive at your casting call, there will be someone to check you in and orient you on how the audition process will go.

Just choose any image that is 240x320 pixels or 320x240 pixels and orient it accordingly on your phone's home screen!

In the next stage (from two to 10 years), children begin to orient religion concepts to themselves as in the catechism litany, "Who made you?

Orient your square so that the right side can be opened.

Orient the paper so the folded side is facing you.

Orient the bird base so the longer point is facing toward you.

Orient the square so the point with several layers is facing toward you.

Spread the napkin out and orient it so one of the points it facing you.

Other films include Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Rock (1996), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).

Talk to people within the "tattoo scene" wherever you are - you want your artist to be extremely well-versed in the arts of the Orient, not just in tattoo work.

Tour operators, such as Pacific Delight Tours, Affordable Tours, and Orient Flexi Pax, among others offer a variety of such packages.

Common courier destinations include all the major cities in Europe, Asia, South America and the Orient.

For those unfamiliar with practicing yoga in a heated environment, it is important to orient yourself towards your own physical and medical health before beginning this practice.

If you find yourself in the Orient, or if you know of a reasonable tailor or seamstress, take that "one bra" to them and have the professional create several replicas from the original.

The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railway has carshops here.

They are concerned mainly with the education of Jews in the Orient, and the establishment of colonies and technical institutions.

Before departing for the Orient, he married Miss Lou Henry, a fellow student at college, daughter of a banker at Monterey, Cal.

The coup d'etat was favourable to Bonaparte; it ensured his hold over the Directors and enabled him to impose his own terms of peace on Austria; above all it left him free for the prosecution of his designs in a field of action which now held the first place in his thoughts - the Orient.

I depart for the Orient with all the means of success at my disposal.

His power was reduced in the 6th century, when he was deprived of his authority over the Orient diocese, and became civil governor of Syria Prima, retaining his "respectable" rank.

In the chronological development of our subject we have now to turn to the Orient.

His Eastern travels (Voyage en Orient) appeared in 1835, his Chute d'un ange and Jocelyn in 1837, and his Recueillements, the last remarkable volume of his poetry, in 1839.

See Rost, Orient.

It remained, then, virtually true, as it had been for two thousand years, that for all that we could learn of the history of the Old Orient in pre-classical days, we must go solely to the pages of the Bible and to a few classical authors, notably Herodotus and Diodorus.

The researches of the archaeologist are, in short, tending to reconstruct the primitive classical history; and here, as in the Orient, it is evident that historians of the earlier day were constantly blinded by a misconception as to the antiquity of civilization.

He wrote Memoiren (Leipzig, 1850); Der Nationalkrieg in Ungarn, &c. (Leipzig, 1851); a history of the Crimean War, Der Krieg im Orient.

This writer states that when at the papal court in 1145 he met with the bishop of Gabala (Jibal in Syria), who related how "not many years before one John, king and priest (rex et sacerdos), who dwelt in the extreme Orient beyond Persia and Armenia, and was, with his people, a Christian but a Nestorian, had made war against the brother kings of the Persians and Medes, who were called Samiards (or Sanjards), and captured Ecbatana their capital.

Not only do the many intimate y y references to Egyptian history and customs support this position, but it is clear that the Jews of Celsus are not Western or Roman Jews, but belong to the Orient, and especially to that circle of Judaism which had received and assimilated the idea of the Logos.

The honour paid by them to the serpent is connected with the old mythologies of Babylon and Egypt as well as with the popular cults of Greece and the Orient.

The date B.C. 2130-2088 is that adopted by Thureau-Dangin, after a discussion of the subject, in the Journal des Savants, 1908, p. 199; and by Ungnad in the Orient.

Provisions are also made for continuing the coinage of " trade dollars " for export, which have a wide circulation in the Orient but are not current at home.

The aboriginal occupants of the greater part of North America were comparatively few in number, and except in Mexico were not advanced beyond the savage state, The geological processes that placed a much narrower ocean between North America and western Europe than between North America and eastern Asia secured to the New World the good fortune of being colonized by the leading peoples of the occidental Old World, instead of by the less developed races of the Orient.

The traveller in Egypt thus views, side by side with the activities of the present day, where occident and orient meet and clash, memorials of every race and civilization which has flourished in the valley of the Nile.

Nearly a hundred bishops were present, all from the Orient, but the bishop of Rome was not represented.

Few people have been so slandered as this great viceroy of the Orient.

The geological processes that placed a much narrower ocean between North America and western Europe than between North America and eastern Asia secured to the New World the good fortune of being colonized by the leading peoples of the occidental Old World, instead of by the less developed races of the Orient.

In its organization Christianity exists in three great divisions, Roman, Greek and Protestant, and in various ancient sects in the Orient.

While these monotheistic, pantheistic doctrines were taught in the schools, the people were left to a debased polytheism and to new superstitions imported from the Orient; the philosophers themselves were by no means unaffected by the popular beliefs.

The causes of this astonishing success, which, in the brief space of a single generation, raised a previously obscure and secluded tribe to the mastery of the whole Orient, can only be Arms and partially discerned from the evidence at our disposal.

The real missionaries of culture in the empire were the Aramaeans (Syrians), who were connected with the West by their Christianity, and in their translations diffused Greek literature through the Orient.

In the 15th century the great Eastern trade with Europe was carried on by the Venetian Republic - Venice was the gate from West to East, and her fleets, richly laden with goods brought down to the shores of the Mediterranean in caravans, supplied Europe with the luxuries of the Orient.

Since 1898 the governmental changes previously referred to, the location of a new trans-continental railway terminus on the bay, and the new outlook to the Orient, created by the control of the Philippines by the United States, and increased trade in the Pacific and with the Orient, have stimulated the growth and ambitions of the city.

He was attaché to Jerome's son, Prince Napoleon, during the Crimean War, and wrote a Précis historique des operations militaires en Orient, de mars 1854 a octobre 1855 (1857), which was completed many years later by a volume entitled La Crimee et Sebastopol de 1853 d 1856, documents intimes et inedits, followed by the complete list of the French officers killed or wounded in that war (1892).

The state carries on an extensive commerce with the Orient and with the Canadian provinces.

At an inn in the Orient he cured a sick monk, who later on, as bishop of Olmiitz, returned the kindness by saving the Jews from massacre.

The tree obeyed.  Toby bit back a yell as he was launched over the treetops into the sky, in the direction of the Lake of Souls.  Another tree branch caught him, and he struggled to orient himself.  He heard the sounds of pursuit but was stuck upside down.

He was a fantastic captain in 'The Orient Game ' and led the clarets out at Wembley a year later.

Even for a force oriented counterattack, use an objective to orient the counterattacking force.

Yes, it does smell particularly dreadful, but there is a belief in the orient that it is a good slipperiness additive.

Red Kooga supplements contain the finest quality panax ginseng which has been used in the orient for thousands of years.

Other things to talk about Artificial satellites use gyroscopes to orient themselves without wasting reaction mass.

Orient fan Alan Chandler attended the opening on behalf of the club.

Well done to Blackpool too, who beat Leyton Orient in the third division playoff final.

I had never been to the Orient proper before either, and the impressions overlapped so fast I felt punch-drunk with pleasure.

To use the obvious shorthand, the Blue Train is the Orient Express of southern Africa.

Bottle of wine to orient beach a barracuda stingray.

Wichita is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the St Louis & San Francisco, and the Kansas City, Mexico && Orient railways.

A weekly service between Constantza and Constantinople is conducted by state-owned steamers, including the fast mail and passenger boats in connexion with the Ostend and Orient expresses.

The empire was divided between them, Honorius governing the two western prefectures (Gaul and Italy), Arcadius the two eastern (the Orient and Illyricum).

The question of the economic development of the state, and of trade to the Orient, the views of the mercenary labour-contractor and of the philanthropist, the factor of " upper-race " repugnance, the " economic-leech" argument, the " rat-rice-filth-and-opium " argument, have all entered into the problem.