In his place was another much admired and steady pair of hands, the veteran Labour press man, David Hill.
She is seen as a steady pair of hands when trouble strikes and a defender of public-service values.
I was soon identified as a steady pair of hands by Gordon Brown and was asked to join his team at the Treasury as an adviser.
Armchair astronomers were able to see the object with little more than binoculars at the ready and a steady pair of hands.
On this ticket, Pence is the GOP's steady pair of hands compared with the politically inexperienced Trump, but the impact of the religious freedom battle lingers, and his decades of anti-LGBT attitudes that preceded it remain.
He has been, in our view, a strong steady pair of hands," he said, adding that "In general, such wholesale and unexpected management change suggests the underlying story is more volatile/higher risk than the market had previously understood".
But investors like him, and a period of calm in a steady pair of hands seems to be what the board is looking for although Siemens's share price has hardly moved since the weekend's drama.
There was the creasy-faced, steady pair of hands Peter Jay steering along the Road To Riches (BBC2, Sunday) towards his theory that the industrial revolution turned us all into consumers, when along came Starkey on a bus, ready to throw spanners into poor Peter's works like confetti.
The BBC's Lineker, painful puns aside – "It's Spain, the result was Navas [the scorer] in doubt" plumbing new depths – has been a steady pair of hands compared with the labouring Adrian Chiles, with whom it is difficult to feel at ease, but ITV are generally felt to have won the punditry battle.
Mining is still riding the wave of consolidation, so there's no questioning that Rio Tinto Group needs a steady pair of hands at the helm.
