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Herman Melville, who used this story as research for "Moby Dick," wrote years later, and from dry land, quote, "All the sufferings of these miserable men of the Essex might in all human probability have been avoided had they, immediately after leaving the wreck, steered straight for Tahiti.
Take the example of Destin Sandlin, who programed his bicycle to turn left when he steered it right and vice versa.
So you were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid, things you liked, on the grounds you would never get a job doing that.
Somebody certainly steered this Hope-hackery over the cliff, as it features Phyllis Diller and Gina Lollobrigida and still can't work up any laughs or excitement.
I had steered clear from this abomination for so long to only let my guard down and allow the temptation to take hold.
The ghost stories of MR James show his fascination with the psychology of terror and it is therefore no accident that film makers down the years have steered clear of his tales.
my friendly neighbourhood video store manager recommended this film to me and so i rented it, since he's never steered me wrong before.
Of course we're steered in the former direction not only by Douglas's terrific performance but also by the clever concluding scene when Sullivan, Turner and Powell, all with ample reason to have nothing do with him, still find themselves effortlessly drawn into his comeback plans.
Recommend it to your friends who may have steered you to a similarly stupid flick or some friends that you would like to hear less from.
I think Soderbergh steered an extremely tight course through the rapids of politics in this film.
Moreover, the major emerging-market countries, which steered successfully through the storms of 2008 and 2009, may not cope as well with the problems looming on the horizon.
A Hard Look at a Soft Global EconomyMILAN – The global economy is settling into a slow-growth rut, steered there by policymakers’ inability or unwillingness to address major impediments at a global level.
Its good-neighbor policy, it turns out, has steered China’s regional diplomacy into uncharted waters.
But change of this order of magnitude is highly contentious, and its path and outcome cannot be easily predicted or steered, no matter how determined the governmental leadership is.
Adenauer steered West Germany into the Western community.
First, America’s mini-deal on taxes has not steered it fully away from the fiscal cliff.
As Patrick Gaspard, the former United States ambassador to South Africa, recently noted, the country has a strong system of checks and balances that, if steered properly, can trump corruption and deliver needed reforms.
More fundamentally, Moon believes that the US has steered the alliance’s North Korea strategy off course.
But the UK government steered clear, with the psychological and political impact of its humiliation proving even more significant than the financial losses incurred by the BoE.
But it was the hardline Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had succeeded Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as Supreme Leader in June 1989, who steered the country in that direction, by plunging relations with the US into a near-total freeze.
On the contrary, she has unflinchingly steered the CDU towards the left, because she learned three things from the CDU’s election defeat in 2002 and its narrow victory in 2005: Germans don’t want to go to war, don’t think much of economic reform, and are mostly to the left of the CDU/CSU.
But the way the elders steered clear of a violent resolution is an admirable example of good governance.
But, for the most part, the candidates have steered clear of speaking Chinese or discussing troubled Pakistani provinces.
Likewise, the Chemical Weapons Convention, steered through the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, is still the most robust arms-control treaty related to weapons of mass destruction ever negotiated.
While free markets may have steered much of the world toward a wealthier, healthier future, placing our faith in Smith’s “invisible hand” to win the fight against climate change would be a tragic mistake.
They steered clear of establishing a heavy budget-fueled bureaucracy, leaving respective ministries to handle administering the accord.
The economy needs to be steered in the desired direction without triggering instability, making correct sequencing and coordination of policy measures essential.
Drones – unmanned aircraft that are remotely steered – have proven to be effective in killing a significant number of terrorists, including many of the most important leaders.
It is to be a democracy steered from above, with only a limited division of power and a streak of authoritarianism, guided by a mixture conservatism, populism, and nationalism.
For the US, steered by neoconservatives, the war in Syria is a continuation of the plan for global US hegemony launched by Defense Secretary Richard Cheney and Under Secretary Paul Wolfowitz at the Cold War’s end.
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