Sentence examples for direction of the ship from inspiring English sources

"Many pressures build up during the election campaign, and after the elections in a calmer, cooler atmosphere, positions are rethought, strategies are nuanced, and a certain balance is kept in the direction of the ship of state.

The ship's heading is read with the aid of the lubber's line, which is oriented toward the forward part of the compass to indicate the direction of the ship's centre line.

The most it can do is attempt to steer the general direction of the ship.

He appears to have been entrusted with the company's treasure, and made most major command decisions such as the direction of the ship and what vessels to attack.

In these paths they discovered that the light and dust traveling in the direction of the ship would be caught in a bow wave, the energy of which would increase and release once the ship had reached its destination, be it Zobax of the poorly named planet known as Gastronormative in Galaxy 11, or, like, Toledo, Ohio.

At 17:45, with the French frigates closing from the west and aware that they could not defend the whole convoy without immediate direct action, Boyles turned Swiftsure and St Albans towards the newcomers, hoisting their colours and Swiftsure firing three shots in the direction of the larger ship, Atalante.

The DNC produced a detailed design in January 1918 that made some changes to his original sketch, including the addition of a rotating bow catapult to allow the ship to launch aircraft regardless of wind direction, and the ship was laid down that month to the revised design.

Whereas we had to make a choice and depict spectacular personas, known to everyone from the TV screen, the leaders who have bigger control of the direction the ship drifts...The more complex characters are in crisis because the world around them is incomprehensible".

And the pattern began early.... On Sept. 20, 2001, President Bush stood before a joint session of Congress, a still grieving and shocked nation and a confused world, and he changed the direction of our ship of state.

"Or is there somewhere inside his heart - an organ that still remains impenetrable to most Britons - a trace of Thatcher, determined to reverse the direction of our ship?

The verb tack means to attach or add and the noun tack means a tiny nail, a course of action, or the direction of a ship.