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Indirect in sentence

263 examples of Indirect in a sentence

So in an indirect way, you can see the sun.
Indirect measurements have shown that the global phytoplankton population may have decreased by as much as 40 percent between 1950 and 2010 because of climate change.
But the second is that I still only had this indirect relationship between oxytocin and trustworthiness.
And I'll start out with a puzzle, the puzzle of indirect speech acts.
This kind of indirect speech is rampant in language.
On the other hand, with indirect language, if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free.
I mean, it's really indirect fusion, is what it is.
It's a somewhat more indirect way.
But the larger sense that we have of our lives, the slightly more abstract one, is indirect.
This indirect protection that the unvaccinated people within a community receive simply by being surrounded by vaccinated people, is called herd immunity.
So if we go back, also thinking about four degrees, it's not just the direct impacts, but also some indirect impacts.
We need those long-term datasets to support conservation action, and I told you tapirs are very hard to study, so we have to rely on indirect methods to study them.
The indirect method begins with pasting moist fabric or paper onto the fish using rice paste.
But even these indirect glimpses are enough to drive them insane.
Vague, sort of indirect requests for help actually aren't very helpful to the helper, right?
Right now, the way we typically make our voice heard in many societies is through direct or indirect voting.
Having a native speaker allow you to deconstruct their grammar, by translating these sentences into past, present, future, will show you subject, object, verb, placement of indirect, direct objects, gender and so forth.
But it's a kind of indirect argument.
And it's all about this question, in a very artistic and indirect kind of way.
If you sum up the CO2 that gets emitted, that leads to a temperature increase, and that temperature increase leads to some very negative effects: the effects on the weather; perhaps worse, the indirect effects, in that the natural ecosystems can't adjust to these rapid changes, and so you get ecosystem collapses.
Or go to those indirect complementarities that I mentioned as well.
This is not to say that it's a bad thing: quite the contrary, films about risqué subject matter have to begin somewhere and America being a culture rooted in specific traditions, themselves laced in deep hypocrisies, shocks itself for the sake of it when seeing an indirect reflection of the mores of the time.
This sort of indirect address of the audience makes the finale of Dekalog Five that much more profound as Kieslowski (As usual) doesn't stay within the literal confines of his theme.
The ending is fitting though, tying it back into the first one in an indirect way.
I seriously doubt ANY corp would actually kill someone directly; even the mod is more indirect these days.
The depiction of the parents (Bain/Sutherland) reminded me, in an indirect way, of Vincent Gallo's BUFFALO '66, although toned-down quite a bit!
And it's not just the fact that the "film" is to the most part incredibly dull: it's supposed to be like an indirect "homage" to Romero's zombie trilogy and other horror-movie greats; hence the rather trite "idea" of naming the idiot characters after real-life directors, actors, or horror-film characters.
Two strands apply - the direct-to-Ozon's mind, and the indirect, via Rampling.
The film's focal point appears to be the indirect answer Antonio gives for the reason for his visit.
It isn't long before our mini-heroine, trampy, is taking mum's indirect advice, likewise ditching her back-home boy toy for a hunky, dangerous uber-dude of her own, who is, oddly enough, Kala's son.
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