I steered clear of sensitive topics.

She steered our efforts in the right direction.

She steered our efforts in the necessary direction.

First, America s mini deal on taxes has not steered it fully away from the fiscal cliff.

But the way the elders steered clear of a violent resolution is an admirable example of good governance.

But, despite its scope, the movement steered clear of violence in order to create a new mode of rebellion.

I expect that Dimon, who has steered Morgan through the crisis without the need for public support, would say amen.

The economy needs to be steered in the desired direction without triggering instability, making correct sequencing and coordination of policy measures essential.

It is a great shame that so many Europeans have steered clear of Iraq with a mixture of self righteousness and anti American Schadenfreude .

There is also the liberalism of José Manuel de la Sota, who steered the indebted province of Córdoba and who is President Eduardo Duhalde's dauphin.

That, in turn, strengthened its two fold belief that its brand of state steered capitalism offers a credible alternative, and that its global ascendance is inevitable.

But, like Eisenhower, he steered the US through multiple crises, overseeing one of the more successful periods of US foreign policy in the last half century.

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.

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.

Solana's deft handling steered Global Voices' editorial through a rapidly shifting media landscape that saw blogging eclipsed by social networks as the primary platform for citizen expression.

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.

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.

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.

It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered the global financial system to the brink of ruin and created the ongoing mess.

Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. So you were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid, things you liked, on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right?

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.

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. It is to be assertive in its dealings with the EU perhaps not so much Euro skeptical as Euro difficult aping Margaret Thatcher s Britain of the 1980 s, despite Poland s being much poorer and less politically influential than Thatcher s Britain was.