Once under canopy, the beginners steered themselves back towards the drop zone before descending gently for a perfect tip-toe landing. |
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In real life, of course, a brigantine's crew would have either fixed or jury-rigged a rudder at sea or simply steered the ship with her sails. |
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He could get real cross when he drank, but he didn't whup us much long as we steered clear. |
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Prosecutors say the company steered clients to certain insurance policies with costlier premiums in return for kickbacks. |
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No less interesting has been the enthusiastic reception of several recent political plays that steered clear of rigid political reductionism. |
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But her anointment by Mr. da Silva, who has steered Brazil through one of its greatest periods of prosperity, automatically made her a contender. |
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The first is the ridge of high pressure which exists between depressions moving from west to east steered by the upper-level jet stream. |
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But anyway, when I steered the conversation away from himself, we had a good time. |
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This is a shift in which electronically steered phased array antennas could replace the mechanically steered dish antennas. |
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Intent on getting a definite asdic signal before asking for air support, Jakey steered nearer to the Island. |
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No doubt he steered clear of the back garden view as night fell on Caledonian Stadium. |
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From the resultant penalty, Wood went for goal, but on this occasion the malevolent wind steered the ball off target. |
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He was heard gasping as the steaming composer was steered back to his baked Alaska, simmering with force majeure. |
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Andy Kay steered the second eleven to promotion to the premier division of the York and District Senior League. |
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This applies in particular to their secretariats that are tightly controlled and steered by a handful of developed countries. |
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The free swiveling nose wheel is steered by differential brakes, rudder and throttles and the aircraft is very maneuverable on the ground. |
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Firmly he pushed the tiller away from him and steered the boat into the wind. |
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His trumpet solos were as torridly intense as his vigorous tones that steered the surging ensembles. |
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The United States has generally been served best by toughminded leaders who steered a middle course. |
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But Guy reveals how Mary shrewdly steered a middle course between her enemies and supporters. |
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I still remember the time my parents steered me clear of any stall where I might have won a goldfish. |
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Unless television has steered me wrong all these years, surely being bionic means you become some kind of super human. |
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The beautiful vessel was steered through the channel by Harbour Master, Donal Walsh, who brought her carefully to the quay wall without a hitch. |
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How can a boat be steered if it is dragged both forward and back, sideways, and up and down? |
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Ramnaresh Sarwan steered West Indies to a comfortable six-wicket win over England in their one-off Twenty20 match on Sunday. |
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He believed Mrs Letch probably tried to correct the skid but in doing so steered squarely into the path of the oncoming car. |
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Spiers has steered the organisation through some of the most unsettling eras in its history. |
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And I can assure you that there is good stuff that I would have liked to have steered you toward that is now simply gone from my brainpan. |
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It might be said that they saved the best for last because Bergen steered the sorrel gelding to a 227.5 score, to blast ahead in the rein work. |
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Glenn had steered her away from the traditional solitaires and selected an estate piece, a huge opal surrounded by diamonds. |
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She steered her mother to the doors, and watched as one of the ushers showed her to her seat in the front pew on the right. |
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The tendency for approaching cold fronts to approach the Cape and then be steered somewhat south-eastward will persist therefore. |
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Mr Hocaniuk, 24, broke hard and steered to avoid the collision, ending up on a grass verge by the side of the road. |
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Many years ago my love for animals steered me toward a career in veterinary medicine. |
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He steered her across the room toward a tall, brown-haired man about thirty years old. |
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She blushed and wagged her finger as if admonishing a small terrier, then hooked her arm in mine and steered me towards the pub. |
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The ship can be easily steered with just the oars doing all the work when the sail is down. |
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Jockey Joe Fanning steered the good stayer to the front as soon as the gates opened and the six-year-old travelled comfortably throughout. |
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She strengthened her grip on my arm, steered me onto a smaller path which forked off the main route to the left. |
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Phaire grabbed the wheel and steered the car and the driver saw where he held it at the top of the wheel. |
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They probably incapacitated the flight crews, then took over the controls and steered the aircraft into their targets, the experts said. |
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Without hydraulic subsystems, we slowed and steered the aircraft with differential power, coming to a stop on an off-duty runway. |
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The driver steered into trees and bushes at the side of the road to try to slow the vehicle. |
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I steered into the bike racks, and dismounted from my alloy steed, then rushed back through the opening in the chain link fence. |
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He placed his arm around her shoulders and steered in the direction he came from. |
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The charioteers were crack units of specially-trained frogmen who sat astride a 30 ft-long torpedo which they steered into enemy harbours. |
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She steered into the oncoming lane, and motioned for the Dodge to pull over. |
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She steered in the direction of the bar, but I got the feeling she was only under the pretence of buying more drinks. |
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Thus, to protect himself, he steered and drove in the direction of the police station. |
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There really isn't any reason for it to have steered in that direction, but they do wobble a little bit. |
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The Team quickly steered into formation, making the necessary preparations and performing the jump through lightspace in a matter of moments. |
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The ship steered towards the great lighthouse, around whose base, waves boiled white and broke in showers of foam against treacherous dark rocks. |
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By holding its finger to the breeze every so often, the party has steered a winding course through the Section 28 debate. |
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He steered a neutral course between the USA and the USSR, which became all the more difficult after the outbreak of the Vietnam War. |
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Nor could it have been good for the ego when Toibin promptly steered the conversation back to Eddie Hobbs. |
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But, although the striker was in a perfect position to score, a brilliant tackle by Deloumeaux steered the ball off his toe. |
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Barker was first to react and the striker steered the ball into the net from close range to put the Rams 2-up. |
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He shared an impressive partnership of 239 for the third wicket as Glamorgan steered themselves into a very solid position. |
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Abbadon steered himself through the maze-like tower, his heavy boots clanking with each step. |
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If it weren't for scant inflation and low interest rates, corporate America would have steered right into the middle of a perfect storm. |
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The director steered clear of portraying him as a cheeky imp and wisely made him a nameless creep. |
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Manda could see a semicircular fanlight over the front door as the Michael steered the jeep toward the front of wrought iron gate. |
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Setting up his own shop two years later, he steered it conservatively for decades. |
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Simply put, no Volvo has steered as crisply or cornered as keenly as this one, or has connected with its driver so interactively. |
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Beyond that, I also said that assets such as forestry and fish are now being steered and managed by Maori governance. |
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The aeroplane is steered in such a way that the wings deliver no lift at all, so it is in a state of free fall. |
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Marcus steered me away from the desks and towards the fringes of the crowd, which was now composed only of people in white tunics. |
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For months, he steered clear of phones with cameras, fearful that handling the click-on gadgetry would be complicated. |
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They will be the first of Britain's major Naval vessels to be without traditional rudders, being steered instead by electric-powered propulsors. |
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Her evidence was that as they walked in the park, the appellant steered her off the footpath onto the grass. |
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One old Etonian, who steered clear of the game himself, described it as extremely slow and a little baffling. |
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As with so many other issues in social research, a steady course needs to be steered between possible extremes. |
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They steered themselves to the top of the hull, tiny mists of air spurting out of the jetpack. |
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Lining up in a rainbow of small, banana-shaped plastic boats, one by one we steered our kayaks across the angry stretch of open water. |
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So far, Wanderlust has steered clear of opportunities that would put them at risk of losing their independent identity. |
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The boats are launched from a slipway into the island's precarious harbour, steered through lulls in the surf and out to passing ships to trade or to load freight. |
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They chose to work with fast-growing retailers who were rethinking how to sell furnishings, and they steered clear of most traditional home stores. |
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It was as if both the man and the driver saw each other at the same time. The coach steered over to the left and the front left wheel went up the kerb. |
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Murray Goodwin began with a single before Richard Montgomerie cut a four and on-drove a three and the next ball was steered to the vacant third man boundary by Goodwin. |
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Some publications use panels or teams of tasters, so the person who steered you toward that great Spanish Rioja may not be the same one praising the German Riesling. |
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Journalists usually steered clear of quoting science either way, with newspapers allowing opinion space for advocates on either side to argue the toss. |
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I shouted, and steered away from the land, out into open water. |
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The mahouts would have steered pairs of kookies so as to separate a grown elephant from the herd, squeezing in on either side. |
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Dr. Annette Smith and colleagues at the University College London have successfully tested in humans a small swallowable gut camera that can be steered around in the gut. |
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They have steered clear of the conventional list of present ideas, plumping instead for a selection of suggestions featuring donations to worthy causes. |
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He steered the US back toward the path of temporisation and appeasement. |
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It steered his legal career off into an incredibly successful tangent, and he's since been lauded for his speechmaking abilities, both in and out of character. |
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Yet, by and large, candidates have steered clear of criminal justice reform this election cycle. |
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Imagine a drone skimming above the ocean waves, steered by scientists on a research ship in the distance. |
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The high recent returns on stocks have steered many investors away from bonds. |
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By now I had steered the curricle onto a fairly deserted lane. |
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He steered the client out in the corridor, where the poor man, clearly confused and with no verbal skills, stood for a few minutes staring mawkishly around. |
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In the glow of their log fire, fortified by coffee and cognac, I deliberately steered the conversation towards the peccadilloes of awkward neighbours. |
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Few comedic gambits are more likely to guarantee disaster than impressions of heavily accented family members, territory that he wisely steered clear of. |
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Since 1999, Baratta has successfully steered the institution through its transition from a public agency to a semiprivate foundation that relies increasingly on earned income. |
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Lehmann steered a ball from Strong to third man and called for a second run but he had not anticipated Brown hitting the stumps with a fast throw from the boundary edge. |
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By time he had completed The Comfort Of Strangers, McEwan had steered his oeuvre away from the overtly dark themes of his first four publications. |
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The Reds got off to a good start and took the lead when Jonathan Brennan steered the ball past Niall Fitzpatrick who was having a great game in the Blues goal. |
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It has an 84-foot diameter, mechanically steered dish antenna and is capable of transmitting a peak power of two million watts at each of its two frequencies. |
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Books, television, even dear old infallible Mom have steered you wrong. |
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As an architect of Indian development, he steered India toward adopting a mixed economy with a large public sector and considerable state control of the private sector. |
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Free agency and a stringent salary cap have steered front offices for the past decade, and such restrictions have all but eliminated some trade possibilities. |
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As the field thundered down the backstretch, Espinoza steered his horse out wide. |
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When Joe steered them into a buoy and all seemed lost, Kennedy inspired him to keep going and eventually win the race. |
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You meant to chase every glass of wine with a pitcher of H2O, but the holiday cheer somehow steered you off course. |
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Usually, quadcopters are steered by humans, or they send their data to a powerful earthbound computer, which then returns the necessary control signals. |
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Unnoticeably, she steered the conversation far away from the subject. |
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The police car was trying to get out of the way but Mac steered into it. |
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I also steered clear of even talking about the topic of Sherrie's pain. |
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You follow her through some dark curtains whereupon you are handed a cup of fresh, strong coffee and steered towards a seat in front of a small screen. |
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The countess deftly steered the lifeboat, a resolute and unlikely vision in her ermine and pearls. |
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A punt is a small, flat-bottomed skiff that is steered with a long, gondolier-style pole that grapples the muddy river bottom with the hook at its end. |
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As electrons used to create the laser beam are steered from the linear accelerator around a curve to a wiggler where the laser beam is produced, the electrons give off t-rays. |
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Soon afterwards Schofield steered his side forward with an excellent 50 yard kick and only his subsequent poor pass prevented Redcar increasing their lead. |
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I diligently steered away from there though, but not without the passing aside that there's probably been the odd unrevealed sexual harassment case in the army too. |
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Although he did not yet have a clear plan for his future, John steered clear of the hard-working, hard-drinking lifestyle of many of his fellow building workers. |
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Several stubborn ideas have steered much of the discourse around health care. |
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Many insurers have recently steered clear of properties held for residential letting and those who do give quotes will often only cover buildings and contents together. |
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The actor, 55, steered clear of all the Prague partying with cast younglings. |
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The ship was steered by a vertical flat blade with a short round handle, at right angles, mounted over the starboard side of the aft gunwale. |
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I did not know the exact route, but steered by the lay of the land, as I do in Boston. |
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Although he was quite capable of affecting accents from outside the M25, he always steered clear of doing so. |
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Also when reaching, the boat can be steered exactly in the direction that is most desirable, and the sails can be trimmed for that direction. |
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Colville levelled in firsthalf stoppage time when David McKay steered a 10-yard header away from keeper Ryan Farrell from Michael Brown's cross. |
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However, Fallon steered The Bogberry to a narrow success yesterday after being applauded into the parade ring. |
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I'm a tad miffed the knicker nicker has, by and large, steered clear of our line. |
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The TGM 26-tonner can be configured with steered, liftable leading and trailing axles. |
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Total Weight Warranty, steered trailing axle, hydraulic release system and WD equipment. |
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After some exploration, Tasman had intended to proceed in a northerly direction but as the wind was unfavourable he steered east. |
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For most of us, Dr Wilder Penrose was our amiable Prospero, the psychopomp who steered our darkest dreams towards the daylight. |
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He steered by the guidance of his own peculiar moral compass, regardless of the rough waters through which it led him. |
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Without such, Xunzi argued, man would act virtuelessly and be steered by his own human nature to commit immoral acts. |
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The dark Tchaikovskian start of the second movement highlighted the strings' maturity, whose emotional intensity steered clear of sappiness. |
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Single, double, and quad sculls are usually steered by the scullers pulling harder on one side or the other. |
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The paragliders use sophisticated parachutes with a 25-foot canopy that can be steered with guidelines but unlike hang gliders do not have metal frames. |
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During the quiescent periods, a more northeasterly position of the Azores High would result in more hurricanes being steered towards the Atlantic coast. |
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During the hyperactive period, more hurricanes were steered towards the Gulf coast as the Azores High was shifted to a more southwesterly position near the Caribbean. |
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Population growth and industrialization brought change to the Nordic countries during the 19th century and new social classes steered political systems towards democracy. |
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She steered the company until 1901 with her brother Richard Jarvis as president, becoming one of the most prominent female industrialists in America. |
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His cousin and associate, Andrew Vivian, steered the machine. |
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While Schwarzenegger's schtick steered clear of his split from Maria Shriver or the baby he had with a longtime maid, he still had plenty of material. |
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Nikolic steered Pelt, raced by Australia's biggest owners Jack and Bob Ingham and trained by John Hawkes, to a long-neck win from the fast-finishing La Lagune. |
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Aniket Desai and experienced campaigner Manna settled down quickly and steered the score past the 100-run mark before Glenn Querl picked up two wickets in one over. |
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This research has been front and center since the Hurricane Sandy disaster, when the wavy jet stream steered the storm on its sharp left turn and smack into the Jersey Shore. |
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It is governed by ocean currents from marginal seas and regional topography, rather than being steered by wind, both in the deep ocean and at sea level. |
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