The part of the sentence "steer a ship" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of controlling the direction of a ship, boat, or other water-borne vehicle. For example: The captain of the vessel carefully steered the ship away from the rocks.
When you steer a ship, you don't look at the bow, you look at the horizon.
He teams up -- reluctantly at first -- with Marina Catherinee Zeta-Jones), who knows how to steer a ship with the best of them, and they battle the flirtatious goddess of chaos (Michelle Pfeiffer).
Steven Law, president and CEO of American Crossroads, said that because the agreement still allowed union phone banks, direct mail advertising and get-out-the-vote operations, the agreement had "loopholes the Teamsters could drive a truck though, the longshoremen could steer a ship through, the machinists could fit a plane through, and government unions could drive forklifts of paperwork through".
"You must understand the difficulty of my position," he seems to be pleading each time he addresses the country – and as he sees it, he now has to save the euro singlehandedly and steer a ship called Europe out of the storm.
She's a power player, Johnny Big Balls, the last adult in the room at a moment when British democracy is whining to find just one adult who can steer a ship full of overgrown babies away from the rocks.
Asteroid Base's collaborative exploration game plays much like Affordable, with the objective to steer a ship through maps of increasing complexity; but it offers more flexibility, as players can switch between roles and responsibilities on the fly without trading pads.
A medal presented to a Liverpool sailor who steered a ship to rescue passengers of the Titanic has sold for nearly £5,000 in London.
And that meant that a night playing at Los Crazios became less a musical journey and more an attempt to steer a disparate ship through a sticky-floored and carnivalesque series of booze-sodden waves, with only saccharine teen pop, bait R&B, and 80s nostalgia anthems for support.
But I invariably run into all sorts of things I don't know (How do you steer a sailing ship? What birds sing in the Alabama woods in March?), and it's fun to take breaks from the writing to go down those research paths.
Also, it is able to steer an underactuated ship along a prescribed straight path with ultimate bounds under external disturbances induced by wave, wind and ocean current.
Born in Jamaica, America-based, culturally super-sensed (yes, even alert to the weirdness of Westminster), this poet steers a tight ship, set deep in its origins, certain to voyage far.
