Holding a steady course requires just as much skill as steering around to a new direction.
Bonds were not expected to suffer in the long term, analysts said, because the Swiss National Bank would hold a steady course with interest rates.
We expect existing agency staff to hold a steady course with a nod towards White House initiatives, but major regulatory reform changes must await leadership in formal roles.
He doesn't rush through those long, excruciating climaxes in the first movement, when the music seems to be tearing itself apart; he holds a steady course, and you hear everything, with no loss of power.
The result is a book that doesn't seem padded-out so much as broken-backed, unable quite to hold a steady course as it plunges through the choppy waters of real and imagined lives in early modern England and its empire.
When one translates the story of another life — an epic with many ellipses, lost passages, and obscure references — it is always into one's own sentences, and if the essential question of biography is Who are you?, the only way to hold a steady course toward the answer is to keep asking, at frequent intervals, Who am I? In that respect, to paraphrase Flaubert, "Madame Bovary, c'est Lydia Davis".
But rather than put up her fees and push parents into reducing the number of hours they send their children to her - something she has seen all too often since the downturn began - she is holding a steady course.
After completing the high-speed maneuvers, standing orders called for the submarine to hold a steady course for three minutes to reestablish sonar contact, which had been disrupted by the high speed maneuvers, with any vessels in the area.
She holds a steadier course, often speaking throughout Edur's interruptions to avoid losing her train of thought.
It is precisely because we have taken the time to get the fundamentals right and held to a steady course that we are better placed to cope with the uncertainties in the world economy this year.
But Spain's ruling party, the PP, has held to a steady course, of recentralising power to Madrid.
