Sentence examples for steering of state from inspiring English sources

In another development that could pose problems for the governor, Nicholas Cioffi, a former judge who was picked by the governor's office to oversee development of this very project, the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, is cooperating with federal prosecutors looking into the possible steering of state contracts, according to lawyers involved in the investigation.

Nowadays far too many people get their hands on the steering wheel of state while still wearing their political L-plates.

The metaphor, he noted, is an old one — "steering the ship of state".

What would French film culture look like without its queen, Catherine Deneuve, steering the ship of state?

In a message to Maryland senator Barbara Mikulski, Clinton wrote of then Maryland governor Martin O'Malley: "He should be elected by acclamation for steering the ship of state so well".

Henry A. Kissinger, his mentor and master in the Nixon White House, also said the nation owed Mr. Haig its gratitude for steering the ship of state through dangerous waters in the final days of the Nixon era.

At worst, Mr Abe's choice of cabinet and his inability to impose discipline on it suggests he is not up to steering the ship of state.A vote, then, against Mr Abe, but not necessarily one for the DPJ.

Obama voters like me are apoplectic that the president does not seem to be steering the ship of state so much as he is making minor course corrections to the routes dictated by the minority party.

The standard clock was a crude statue of the president-elect, dressed in the oilskins of a Gloucester fisherman, standing and staring into uncharted waters with steely determination while steering the ship of state.

In the paper we have considered the problem of steering the state of linear time-varying control systems defined on a nonuniform model on time (i.e., on time scale) to a given target set when the control is subject to specified magnitude constraints.

Steering the Ship of State and our personal lives is tough enough under the best of circumstances.