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Direct in sentence

3019 examples of Direct in a sentence

Choose your approaches depending on whether you direct, mentor or coach and give space to people or teams, based on their capabilities as well.
Learning from direct competitors is underrated.
This is the most kind of direct, obvious intersection of the two things.
And together we got through the eye of the financial storm in Iceland without taking any direct losses to our equity or to the funds of our clients.
We studied the winds and the sun to make sure everybody in the city will have fresh air, fresh water and direct sunlight in every single apartment at some point during the day.
So that may be a very direct way that we see it happen.
And finally, in the shade under the mirrors, it's possible to grow all sorts of crops that would not grow in direct sunlight.
Cystic fibrosis is an example of a disease where you just have a bad ingredient and you have a disease, and we can actually make a direct correspondence between the ingredient and the disease.
As you can see here, there's some direct light on the floor, but they could easily figure out where that comes from.
When they bombed Hiroshima, the explosion formed a mini-supernova, so every living animal, human or plant that received direct contact with the rays from that sun was instantly turned to ash.
I'm going to organize it and direct it and get it going in the world.
When I write and direct plays, I'm amplifying voices of disadvantaged groups, I'm fighting the self-censorship that has kept many Ugandan artists away from social, political theater since the persecution of artists by former Ugandan president, Idi Amin.
It seems that cancer is a direct result to injury.
Attention allows us to notice, select and direct the brain's computational resources to a subset of all that's available.
And what I mean by this is that when we direct attention to the face, it becomes clearer and more salient, it's easier to see.
But when we direct it to the scene, the face becomes barely perceptible as we process the scene information.
But so those are all parts of our bodies where we very directly interact with our environment, in a direct confrontation, if you like.
And they have actualized compassion through direct action.
Similarly, if we'd had this talk 30 or 40 years ago, we would have seen how the rise of nuclear weapons, and the threat of mutually assured destruction they imply, prevents a direct fight between the two superpowers.
And my organization tried to sort of channel some of that energy of the movement and direct it towards the White House.
As well, we could characterize the fungal receptor receiving those signals and part of the underlying reaction occurring within the fungus and leading to its direct growth toward the plant.
So what we can do is actually tell you about the molecules, but we don't really have a direct way of showing you the molecules.
If I gave you a 3D printer, you wouldn't know how to direct it to make what you want it to.
This is something that is now possible today, that you can direct personally how you want your products to look.
You can direct what color that product will be, perhaps what material.
It's the direct signal being recorded from my head, rendered in real time.
And we said specifically, "What if it was zero dollars an hour for direct labor and we could build a million- square-foot distribution center?"
On the other side of the political spectrum, the first time that I heard Rush Limbaugh refer to presidential hopeful John Edwards as the Breck girl I knew that he'd made a direct hit.
Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth.
And this disorder is in direct contrast to the unalterable order of a bloodline.
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