Sentence examples for practice of steering from inspiring English sources
One of Mr. Forrester's core campaign promises is to end the practice of steering contracts to campaign contributors and politically-connected vendors.
For the first eight months of her husband's presidency, Michelle Obama has made a practice of steering clear of most policy debates, spending more time in the public eye promoting the White House's vegetable garden than its agenda.
In fact, the depiction of Kleiner Perkins's workplace — including the subtly sexist and racist jokes, the negative way that ambitious women were portrayed, the practice of steering female employees toward more administrative roles and male colleagues toward high-profile, profit-driven work — would have been familiar to many professional women.
ALMOST four decades after the passage of the federal Fair Housing Act and about 20 years after a federal judge found segregation in the Yonkers schools, the illegal real estate practice of steering minority groups away from nonminority neighborhoods persists, according to a study issued by Westchester Residential Opportunities, a nonprofit housing agency in White Plains.
Bank of America, which bought Countrywide Financial in 2008, recently agreed to pay $335 million to settle a lawsuit by the Justice Department over Countrywide's practice of steering black and Hispanic borrowers to subprime loans while similarly qualified white borrowers got better terms.
That month, the Federal Reserve also forced Wells Fargo to pay an $85 million fine in connection with the bank's practice of steering buyers who could have qualified for better loans into subprime mortgages and falsifying information on key documents.
And though the origins of the practice of castration are murky, we know that by the early 17th century, boys were being mutilated for the specific purpose of steering them into opera.
I have no way of steering.
And that could cause the loss of steering.
Such a failure could result in the loss of steering.
