Sentence examples for its handlers from inspiring English sources

By comparing the ever-changing pattern of the asteroids against the backdrop of fixed stars, it can work out exactly where it is.Though its handlers obviously hope that their brainchild will succeed, Deep Space 1's relatively low cost (just over $150m, compared with $1.5 billion for the Galileo probe currently orbiting Jupiter), means that its failure would not be a disaster.

Do you know where this boat is coming from and going to each day? A. That is the Sludge Boat, the affectionate term given the vessel by its handlers at -- you guessed it -- the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

Calling it a "puppet" is perhaps unfair, but its handlers know that, without their constant support and interventions, at any moment their fragile star could break down, fall over, behave in some completely bizarre and unexpected way, or suffer a permanently fatal malfunction.

Calling it a "puppet" is perhaps unfair, but its handlers know that, without their constant support and interventions, at any moment their fragile star could break down, fall over, behave in some completely bizarre and unexpected way or suffer a permanently fatal malfunction.

The whale was apparently imitating the speech patterns of its handlers.

For $20, a black town car with a little tabby and its handlers would arrive with cuddles and sweets.

When a dog wins its group at Westminster, it heads to a medal stand where it poses with its handler and the judge who chose it.

Or the dog could be reacting to a cue from its handler, be it accidental, like reaching for a treat to reward the dog, or, more ominously, on purpose.

The costs don't end there: while a bomb dog typically goes to live with its handler when it retires, dolphins require specialised care.

According to one account, she could even charm her way around animals: when a "vicious Alsatian dog, trained to bite and break necks," found her hiding under a bush with some partisans, she placed her arm around it, and "it lay down beside her, ignoring its handler's whistles".

It manages to escape its handler and elude capture for a significant period of time.