And it's known that migrating birds, for example, get very disoriented because of these offshore platforms.

Throughout the entire time he was held in a windowless cell under constant artificial light, which allegedly disoriented his sense of time.

All of these events have disturbed and disoriented Turkey, and are magnified by the domestic impact of worst global economic crisis since the 1930 s.

The public, you know, once disoriented can actually ascend to the angel deck above and then just come down under those lips into the water bar.

(c) Refugees (art. Young children who are refugees are most likely to be disoriented, having lost much that is familiar in their everyday surroundings and relationships.

What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.

Ruthless leaders mobilize disoriented followers. Particularly the losers, often represented by young men with no future to look forward to, can be induced to take even suicidal action against the alleged enemy.

And it's been really interesting to be in my head for the last two days I've been very disoriented because I think the world, the V world, is very much in your body.

Extreme ideas offer an alternative compass to disoriented souls like Mohammed Bouyeri, van Gogh's suspected murderer. He is not so much a product of zealous imams from rural Morocco as of the West's information society.

The labyrinth is a concept, it's like a twilight zone, it's a place where it's difficult, where you get disoriented, maybe you get scared but you have to go through it if you're going to get to some kind of deep reintegration.

The world is gripped by an economic crisis, which, as President Clinton said in this city only a week ago, has plunged millions into sudden poverty and disrupted and disoriented the lives of ordinary people, and brought deep personal disappointment to tens of millions of people around the world.

Given its insecurity, a by product of the Korean Peninsula s long division, South Korea requires, above all, calm and steady partners. But frequent changes in US policy toward Northeast Asia in recent years have disoriented South Korean policymakers, while Chinese policy, though consistent, confronts South Korea s leaders with choices that they appear unprepared to make.

Then there is geography France s massive urban concentration around the capital Paris and its suburbs contain nearly 20 of the population is unique in Europe. The sheer number of confused and disoriented young people has overwhelmed the French system s capacity to integrate them even though its capacity in this regard is, in fact, impressive.

As I argue in my recent book Mind, Modernity, Madness, the reason for high concentrations of severe mental illness in the developed West lies in the very nature of Western societies. The virus of depression and schizophrenia, including their milder forms, is cultural in origin the embarrassment of choices that these societies offer in terms of self definition and personal identity leaves many of their members disoriented and adrift.