Dinklage points to the 1984 "American Playhouse" production of Sam Shepard's "True West," starring Gary Sinise and John Malkovich, as the moment that steered him toward a career in acting.
Dr. Pert continued her career at the National Institute of Mental Health, where she continued to do pioneering work on receptors and the peptides that correspond to them, coming to conclusions that steered her toward alternative medicine.
In fact, the folk art museum's greatest success, its supporters say, may be its decision to shed, for now at least, the outsize ambitions that steered it toward trouble in the first place.
It may have been the decisive factor that steered Poland toward the Western (Latin) branch of Christianity by the time of its adoption in 966.
As the first Democrat to take the reins of the county since 1970, Mr. Suozzi vowed to put an end to years of mismanagement that steered the county toward bankruptcy.
And the second was asking myself a slightly different question than "how can I be happy" that steered my journey toward values and meaning.
Realism in the theatre was a general movement in the later 19th century that steered theatrical texts and performances toward greater fidelity to real life.
Hopper's Truro paintings, especially from the 1930s, outline an important crossroads in his work: isolated buildings in broad vistas are meditations on form and color that steer toward the abstract while remaining figurative.
Several of Talabani's aides told me privately about men in his entourage who, they suspected, profited from government contracts that they steered toward their friends.
StumbleUpon is a Web service that steers users toward content they are likely to find interesting.
Ever since Plato, philosophers have been trying to answer the question "What is a good life for a human being?" This question presupposes that one size fits all -- that we all have the same built-in mechanism ("reason," "human nature") that steers us toward the same goal.
