Sentence examples for could have steered from inspiring English sources

The American military did not dispute the possibility that theft or corruption could have steered Wolf and Czech ammunition to insurgents.

He had to mention it, of course, but he could have steered around the storm, observing it from the outside before moving on to more agreeable matters.

That campaign, prone as it was to treating arithmetic as a fusty English imposition, laid radical left-wing tracks onto which Ms Sturgeon could have steered the SNP train.

From the Bears' point of view, it's hard to imagine this season getting any more bizarre, but David Haugh writes in The Chicago Tribune that perhaps the team could have steered clear of this one had it been a bit more diligent in checking on Hurd before it signed him as a free agent last summer.

It turns out that today members of the FSB still revere Andropov as the man who could have steered the Soviet Union out of the torpor of its later years and into a dynamic future without having to experience the chaos of the 90s and gangster capitalism.

Detroit's financial downfall was created in part by dwindling population and a bad economy, but better leadership at all levels could have steered us to safer shores in the first place.

As it happened, this methodical maneuver headed the Lusitania right toward the enemy U-boat; Captain Schweiger later told a friend, "She could not have steered a more perfect course if she had deliberately tried to give us a dead shot".

JJ Abrams directs the new Star Wars movie — the one which many believe is the project George Lucas could and should have steered to the screen 16 years ago instead of Phantom Menace and the whole prequel trilogy.

As rumours spread about its predicament, shoppers who could have become customers have steered clear, fearful to place orders in case their cash disappeared and kitchens failed to materialise.

This could explain why the Ustinov Studio is staging a handful of controversial US plays that others have steered well clear of.

The guidebooks have steered tourists to her.