Sentence examples for executed a maneuver from inspiring English sources

Lovell along with John L. Jack Swigertrt, Command Module pilot, and Fred W. Haise, Lunar Module pilot, executed a "maneuver," to manually adjust the course of the craft.

An alert defending fighter pilot, however, might use his attacker's speed to his own advantage by executing a maneuver called a rudder reversal, in which he would turn and do a snap roll, suddenly reducing his forward motion so that the speeding attacker would overshoot and find the intended victim on his tail.

It achieves this by automatically tipping the nose downwards in certain circumstances, blurring the boundaries between a fault with the aircraft (for executing a maneuver) and a fault with the pilot (for improperly reacting to the maneuver).

Some said he put them in headlocks, forcing them to execute a maneuver his staff dubbed the "Filner dance" to get away.

Skip ahead to the later stages and I was absolutely beat after the game forced me to execute a maneuver akin to a crouching, one-legged swan with spread wings, all the while controlling my character with the gamepad held tentatively in one hand.

The last thing you want is to try and execute a maneuver while 4 people yell out their two cents or become rowdy around you.

Facebook executed a similar maneuver when it eschewed acquisition offers to become a company now valued by some at more than $40 billion.

According to Jilani, Nabi executed a flanking maneuver straight out of Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

But according to Jilani (and confirmed by village elders), Gechi executed a flanking maneuver that corralled most of the Taliban in one of the village market stalls.

Once collared, Chan threw the man into the door, executed an "armbar" maneuver and kicked Bollog in the face to knock him out until police arrived on the scene.

Not only did George Washington sleep in Kingston, but he executed a deft tactical maneuver here as well.