Sentence examples for steady old from inspiring English sources

One, the wise, steady old hand taking control of the crucial moments of an N.B.A. finals game for a venerable franchise.

Enter the steady old hand: Joe Tanto Mr. Stallonee), still pretty good behind the wheel himself, but not as good as he was before his last big wreck.

LONG cast by investors in supporting roles as the steady, old reliables in their portfolios, municipal bond funds have recently taken center stage, returning 4.7percentt in the last quarter, according to Morningstar.

SNP ministers reply that such a constraint is more than offset by the better borrowing rates a new state would expect to enjoy if its currency was based on steady old sterling rather than a new untested currency.

When Charles mentions that he and a friend might wish to dine every evening at London's Athenaeum Club, his fiancée lets him know that if he plans to hit the clubs with his "excellent steady old friends" every night, he's got another think coming.

"It will make the Dow a more interesting index to watch, but also more volatile since it is replacing a nice, steady old name with an interesting and exciting tech and retail company".

Tracking the decline of melancholy (which ruled the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), graphed against the mid-twentieth-century emergence of depression, and the steady line of regular old sadness over the years.

"Steady on, old girl," Charlie said.

Steady on old chap, that's no way to talk about the royal family.

They're about time and memory, and they move to a rhythm that suggests something pulsing under their calm surfaces, the steady breaking of old blood, old memories, the oldest waves of human feeling.

Wealth, abundance and the lack of a steadying, centuries-old food culture have conspired to make us Americans dysfunctional eaters, obsessed with getting thin while becoming ever more fat, lurching from one specious bit of dietary wisdom (margarine is better for you than butter) to another (carbs kill).