Sentence examples for direct became from inspiring English sources

Mr. Owens had found the era's blend of narcissism and modesty, and his voice, unassertive but direct, became more a reminiscence than a pose.

Fears have been raised that banks and building societies were preparing to cut rates for savers by more than last week's reduction to 0.25% by the Bank of England, after First Direct became one of the first major firms to take the axe to savings rates.

The children have left home, and this is an opportunity for Alison to be closer to the film world after the screenplay she wrote 19 years ago "in her bed of pregnancy", and convinced Alan Rickman to star in and direct, became 2014's A Little Chaos.

From insurance to early PC makers like Dell to travel agents, this time seemed to be an age where "direct" became a desirable moniker.

It is interesting to note how the double-crest pattern in the M2 period is still recorded by Swarm A and not by Swarm B, suggesting that, in the 2 h of MLT difference characterizing the two satellites, the plasma fountain from direct became again reverse.

A 2007 study found that female leaders are penalized for success in male domains when they defy gender stereotypes about how women should act, which is how being authoritative, aggressive and direct becomes "pushy" and "bossy" and "b*tchy".

Directing became as much their primary job as acting.

A song he wrote and performed for the television movie "Jack's Baby," which he also directed, became a surprise top-20 hit here, and led to an unlikely recording career.

Her set designs for the plays Tairov directed became classic; the most renowned of these were Innokenty Annensky's tragedy Famira-Kifared (1916; Eng. trans. Thamyris Kitharodos in The Russian Symbolist Theatre) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé (1917).

Goldin was prescribed OxyContin in 2014 for tendonitis in her wrist, and despite taking the drug as directed, became "addicted overnight," she writes.

However, the most straightforward way to calculate the weights (RBF-Direct) becomes then numerically highly ill-conditioned.