Sentence examples for steer work from inspiring English sources

Mr. Giella, 48, of Vernon, N.J., also said he had been directed to steer work to United Gunite by a city official at a higher level.

Given the scale of work, retailers frequently place orders through suppliers and other middlemen who, in turn, steer work to factories that deliver low costs — a practice he said is hardly unknown to Western retailers and clothing brands.

The White House has shown a softening toward labor by rescinding the part of an executive order that called for scrapping existing project labor agreements, which often steer work to unionized building contractors on federally financed construction proj ects.

Federal officials are investigating whether Mr. Jackson steered work at the Virgin Islands housing authority and rebuilding work in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to friends.

A general practitioner with a strictly steered working day reacts negatively against anything that is perceived as control.

Opponents also predict that companies will steer overtime work to those who choose comp time.

While the company probably won't pay more for apparel from better suppliers, it will try to steer more work their way.

A Verizon manager acknowledged to investigators that Mr. Lanham had threatened to steer its work to I.B.M. if Verizon did not agree to use one of the intermediary companies, Custom Computer Specialists of Hauppauge, that Mr. Lanham wanted them to use.

According to the lawsuits filed this month against Lender Processing Services and Prommis Solutions, plaintiffs' lawyers accused the companies of using various mechanisms to steer legal work to foreclosure mills, then splitting legal fees with the lawyers running those operations.

WASHINGTON — Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign's efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles.

Mr. Penn said that a BKSH associate had worked briefly in Iraq and met several Blackwater personnel, who steered the work to his firm.