Vocabulary
Helm
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
A wheel or tiller by which a ship is steered
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The undercurrents of resentment and discontent cannot be ignored by those who are currently at the helm.
- The mobs did not consist of people brought in convoys of buses supplied by a political party, nor did they have a leadership at the helm, except perhaps a loosely knit group of student leaders that messaged out to everyone else.
- Those at the helm must come to terms with the one lesson that has remained unchanged through the decades: they may silence their critics momentarily with court judgements, but it is the people who ultimately deliver political verdicts.
- Ten years since the last elections sparked a crisis and six after football`s national governing body was placed under the control of a FIFA-appointed Normalisation Committee, there is an elected leadership at the helm.
- Therefore, last week when Trump traipsed into Abu Dhabi, he and OpenAI were also at the helm of a strategic victory.
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