Sentence examples for executing a maneuver from inspiring English sources

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).

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.

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.

Preston has denied attacking the younger boy, who is 14, telling the investigating officer that he was merely executing a common maneuver that "everyone does," in order to "to motivate people who don't move on the mats".

We reconsider an old approach in which a small probe obtains significant solar-system escape speeds by "dropping" deep into the Sun's gravitational potential well and then executing a ΔV maneuver at perihelion.

From 50 yards out, Almirante Lynch fired her bow torpedo, which missed, and then fired her forward starboard torpedo after executing a turning maneuver like Almirante Condell had done.

One popular tattoo depicts "Christ Air Mickey" — showing the character executing a skateboarding maneuver called the "Christ Air". Chavez, 35, has also worked with fashion brands to carry limited-edition items that playfully poke at the squeaky-clean Disney image.

Clinton was executing a tactical, defensive maneuver.