The phrase "direct outcome" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a result or consequence that is immediately and directly caused by a particular action or event. Here is an example sentence: "The implementation of new safety regulations was a direct outcome of the recent workplace accidents." This sentence means that the new safety regulations were put in place directly because of the workplace accidents and not because of any other factor.
Developing an ability to speak complex language would have been a direct outcome, for example.
And indeed, it is clear that black male cruelty and violence towards black women is a direct outcome of patriarchal exploitation and oppression.
Lester Brickman, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School, recalled that President Bush gained popularity in Texas as "a direct outcome of the largely successful tort reform efforts," and would be emboldened by the Republican victories.
And it has to be remembered that the UDHR was the direct outcome of horror and revulsion prompted by the violence done to humankind during the second world war, not least the murder on an industrial scale of European Jewry.
That is a direct outcome of President Bush's having ignored the recommendations of James Baker's Iraq Study Group to wind down combat operations and parley with Iran and Syria.
The failed U.S. intervention in Lebanon was the direct outcome of having a president, Mr. Reagan, who was fuzzy on the details, susceptible to cliches and totally dependent on foreign policy advisers, who themselves did not understand the Middle East.
"And the winner of the 2010 prize, Bi Feiyu, has been published in India … a direct outcome of the fact the prize got quite a bit of visibility in India.
But it is impossible, browser makers and market researchers say, to isolate the effect of the ballot from general market trends, and there is no way to measure consumer participation in the balloting or its direct outcome.
The first, direct outcome of enforcing the Libyan Political Exclusion Law would be pushing smart, influential former officials — some with access to key resources — toward a not insignificant segment of Libyan society unhappy with the revolution's outcome.
The designed nature of Bhutan's democracy is the direct outcome of the decision by Bhutan's fourth king, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck's decision to voluntarily hand over power to his people, and this is what makes it so very special.
This stress rise is a direct outcome of the geometry of the notch.
