Sentence examples for put the lever from inspiring English sources
He put the lever in park.
He stopped at the gate, put the lever in park, and got out.
You put the lever forward, and once I develop some speed, I let off on the clutch and that engages second gear".
I think that that's what the article says, too -- we're just beginning to appreciate the genetic and neuro-physiological aspects of this problem, and until we do more investigation, we're not going to figure out where to put the lever.
Automatics are somewhat different: of course there is no clutch for you to press, but according to your car configuration you may have to press the brake or press buttons on sticks; what's common to all automatic shifts is that you have to put the lever on R (reverse).
"I pulled them down, I counted for 10 seconds out loud and then put the levers back in place," Mr. Hall said.
Let's use it as the impetus for radical democratisation: to put the levers of power in everyone's hands, not just a few thousand in an Alpine resort.
There's a real appetite for new ideas, original insights, and spirited debate, and we are engaging our leaders at Deloitte, as well as the business community at large, to examine the purpose, impact, and leadership expected of business in society, and to put the levers in place to help bring about positive change in the world.
"Choice puts the levers in the hands of parents and patients so that they as citizens and consumers can be a driving force for improvement in their public services," said Tony Blair last year.
Which, of course, underscores the real problem with inequality in addition to undercutting when wealth concentrates so heavily at the top, it starts to infiltrate and corrode the political system, poisoning the democratic process and putting the levers of power in the hands of the very few.
In the second hypothesis, the pilot has performed a procedure different from that provided in the manual, and put the thrust lever in an irregular position, a configuration of human error for the accident.
