According to the AP, in 2012 Manafort and associate Rick Gates worked on behalf of Ukraine's then-president, Viktor Yanukovych, and helped steer the efforts of European Centre for a Modern Ukraine, an advocacy group that once included members of Yanukovych's party.
Officials of countries in the region say that Mr. Petraeus has been deeply involved in trying to steer the supply effort, though American officials dispute that assertion.
Men like Benjamin Butler, most notably, tried to steer the military effort in a potentially abolitionist direction by making Fort Monroe in Virginia a haven for runaway slaves, while Maj.
But if the committee uses its inquiry for its stated purpose -- "hearing testimony on the causes and current state of the crisis" -- it may help direct the national conversation and steer the current reform efforts.
Moreover, Mr. Obama's advisers say they are acutely aware that if the government is perceived as running the banks, the administration would come under enormous political pressure to halt foreclosures or lend money to ailing projects in cities or states with powerful constituencies, which could imperil the effort to steer the banks away from the cliff.
Trump and the Republicans were unscathed in the effort to steer the election Trump's way, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
He said that there was no effort to steer the planes to a specific destination, and that no pressure had been exerted on Pentagon officials.
The changes amplify the mayor's longstanding effort to steer the city away from its emphasis on emergency shelter for the homeless, and toward providing permanent housing and using social services to prevent homelessness.
"I will work hard to achieve victory for the BJP in 2014 elections," he said, adding: "I seek the blessings of millions of Indians to join our effort to steer the country out of these perilous days".
Although President Obama has been Mr. Bernanke's partner in an effort to steer the economy through a financial crisis, deep recession and recovery, so was the man who put Mr. Bernanke in the job in the first place: Mr. Bush.
