Sentences with phrase «steering oars»

Timbers and steering oars similar to those on ships depicted in Hatshepsut's wall carvings were recovered in sand both inside and outside the caves.

During an unexpected storm, it weathered 10 - foot waves and winds over 20 knots, and the two massive steering oars trailing the ship's hull helped keep it on course.

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Pulling solely on the oar of capitalist individualism results in nihilism, as it did in the Gilded Age and in the 1920s and «80s, and is no more satisfactory than trying to steer society by the oar of Christian communitarianism.

Remember, the public has a set of oars in the water and the REALTORS (r) are not the only ones steering this rowboat.