Sentence examples for becoming direct from inspiring English sources

Despite their protestations, the companies are now becoming direct rivals.

Her move highlights the fact that The Journal and CNBC are gradually becoming direct competitors.

But the two companies, traditionally seen almost as sister companies in complementary businesses, are increasingly becoming direct competitors, a trend the proposed deal would accelerate, analysts and investment bankers say.

Television networks and Hollywood studios have long depended on their stars to promote shows and films, but with the growth of social networking on the Internet, actors are becoming direct marketers to a greater extent than ever before.

Some of the banks are also becoming direct investors.

But in these "cloud computing" days of accessing software remotely over Internet-hooked data centers, Cisco and Oracle are becoming direct competitors.

Another example is the electrical resistivity of selenium, which is high in one direction but low in the other; when an alternating current is applied to this material, it is transmitted in only one direction (rectified), thus becoming a direct current.

In the spraying of the elms, the birds are the incidental victims of an attack directed at an insect, but in other situations they are now becoming a direct target of poisons.

He watches videos and works on movement, becoming more direct.

Sonia Faleiro, a prize-winning Indian journalist, said that abuse was becoming more direct and more overt.

Barcelona, feeling the pressure brought to bear upon them, bypassed it as best they could by becoming more direct.