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The phrase "acting directly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is taking immediate action or making decisions without intermediaries.
Example: "The manager is acting directly to resolve the issue without waiting for approval from higher-ups."
Alternatives: "taking direct action" or "acting immediately".
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Or should they take a more aggressive approach to monitoring and acting directly against damaging behaviour?
"They know what is expected of them and this time you will see them acting directly".
Both American officials said there was little evidence to suggest the men were acting directly on the orders of Qaeda leaders.
The government will have to be seen to be acting directly to ease the population's suffering and re-levelling a very slanted playing field.
To belong to an oppressed group always meant that you could not pursue your self-interest by acting directly on the world.
For instance, some animals may help to transfer pollen from one plant to another without acting directly as the carrier themselves.
Hypercapnia can produce cortical arousal and hypocapnia cortical depression by acting directly on mesencephalic structures [35].
Mostly through the use of taxes/tariffs and by governments acting directly on users' behalf.
They are the stimulants of bone resorption, acting directly on osteoclasts and osteoclast precursors.
Nicotine and/or other toxic agents present in tobacco-based products may cause CH acting directly on the hypothalamus [12].
Dopaminergic agonists, acting directly at the receptor level, would be able to decrease the incidence of these motor complications.
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