Sentence examples for steer half from inspiring English sources

THE belief that more education will make Britain more meritocratic and shrivel the class system lies behind the huge expansion in higher education of the past two decades and the government's determination to steer half the country's 18-30-year-olds into universities.

Stall eight proved to be a handy berth for the in-form chestnut as the field tracked across to the stands' rail and Buick kept cool to steer him half a length clear of Merlin's Dancer.

It was not an easy chance and the Tottenham Hotspur striker relied upon instinct to steer the half-volley towards goal.

Most surprising about the article was the fact that Vidal's nephew, the film director and screenwriter Burr Steers, and half sister, Nina Straight, used their interview with the Times to imply that Vidal had engaged in, as Straight put it, "Jerry Sandusky acts" during his lifetime — a detail that quickly spread to other news outlets.

City's sloppiness in possession almost cost them again early in the second half when Borini broke clear to set up Suarez but the Uruguayan could only steer a half-hit effort well off target.

As Day's pilot steers the half-destroyed plane towards doom, "Yo can tell he's weary with holdin her and wants to go home and yo'd like to goo wum with him and he has such blue eyes the skipper like he's got all the morning sky inside his head".

The defender steered a half-volley into the bottom-right corner from 12 yards following Matthew Palmer's corner.

It came with 10 minutes to play when Bellusci calmly steered a half-volley into Westwood's bottom corner after Wednesday failed to clear a free-kick.

A total of 173 bulls were identified as having sired 1,057 of the steers with half-sib groups ranging in size from 1 to 81 and averaging 6.1 steers.

These steers comprised half-sib families produced by the artificial insemination of commercial and purebred Nelore dams, derived from 18 sires representing the main breeding lineages commercialized in Brazil.

The goal is to steer at least half of the materials away from landfills and incinerators to help reduce the city's annual $300 million price tag for waste disposal.