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- verb transitive To
orientate anew; to cause to face a differentdirection .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb orient once again, after a disorientation
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The 20 challenges themselves are outlined in this table, grouped into ways in which to raise public awareness; to strengthen legislation and policies; to modify risk factors; to engage businesses and communities; to reduce health impacts of poverty and urbanization; and to "reorientate" health systems.
Grand challenges in diseases Maxine 2007
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The 20 challenges themselves are outlined in this table, grouped into ways in which to raise public awareness; to strengthen legislation and policies; to modify risk factors; to engage businesses and communities; to reduce health impacts of poverty and urbanization; and to "reorientate" health systems.
Grand challenges in diseases Maxine 2007
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The 20 challenges themselves are outlined in this table, grouped into ways in which to raise public awareness; to strengthen legislation and policies; to modify risk factors; to engage businesses and communities; to reduce health impacts of poverty and urbanization; and to "reorientate" health systems.
November 2007 Maxine 2007
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Dr Forster, who has been Bishop of Chester since 1996, is a conservative who was once investigated by police after he suggested that homosexuals should "reorientate" themselves through psychiatric help.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It is probably true to say that in any long-term relationship a fault line will appear at some point as the individuals are bound to change, develop, and reorientate themselves.
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David Cameron, on part of his recent US tour, while not fully creditingour role in WWII, spared no time in ‘bigging up’ UK industry overseas, pledging to “reorientate” British foreign policy towards promoting UK trade.
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At the same time, the Lebanese government that had come to power trying to reorientate Beirut into a more western orbit was hugely undermined, as its supposed new allies seemed powerless to defend its infrastructure and civilians from Israeli attacks.
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Ultimately, we have to reorientate our economy away from an obsession with financial services towards more meaningful industries.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2008
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Ultimately, we have to reorientate our economy away from an obsession with financial services towards more meaningful industries.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2008
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If Labour manage to reorientate completely with the likes of Gisela Stuart as leader, then an Obama-like confident declaration of decentralising would outflank Cameron's more muted approach.
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