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Synonyms for indirect

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Synonyms for indirect

having intervening factors or persons or influences

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not direct in spatial dimension

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descended from a common ancestor but through different lines

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not as a direct effect or consequence

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In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.
Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.
In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack--the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.
The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in turn.
The difference between a direct importation from abroad, and an indirect importation through the channel of a neighboring State, in small parcels, according to time and opportunity, with the additional facilities of inland communication, must be palpable to every man of discernment.
"The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your defects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interesting.
"His property is landed property." Her voice faltered, as she referred to him, even in that indirect manner.
The question bore no sort of relation, direct or indirect, to what Isabel happened to be saying at the moment.
Lyell, that the large quadrupeds lived subsequently to that period, when boulders were brought into latitudes at which icebergs now never arrive: from conclusive but indirect reasons we may feel sure, that in the southern hemisphere the Macrauchenia, also, lived long subsequently to the ice-transporting boulder-period.
In the second book, when Glaucon insists that justice and injustice shall be considered without regard to their consequences, Adeimantus remarks that they are regarded by mankind in general only for the sake of their consequences; and in a similar vein of reflection he urges at the beginning of the fourth book that Socrates falls in making his citizens happy, and is answered that happiness is not the first but the second thing, not the direct aim but the indirect consequence of the good government of a State.
M2 PRESSWIRE-August 21, 2019-: Indirect Procurement Outsourcing Market Growing Popularity and Emerging Trends:IBM, Accenture, GEP, Infosys, Capgemini
Some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State have sued the National Working Committee (NWC) on the adoption of indirect primary for the selection of the party's candidate for the governorship poll holding on November 16, 2019.
Cadogan Petroleum PLC (LON:CAD) expects to increase its indirect interest in Italian oil and gas engineering services firm Proger Ingegneria.
[USPRwire, Tue Apr 16 2019] In order to study the various trends and patterns prevailing in the concerned market, Market Research Reports Search Engine (MRRSE) has included a new report titled " Indirect Calorimeter Market " to its wide online database.
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