Most importantly, it is demonstrated that a current protocol, normalization, and statistical method yield transitive results that are correlated in direction and magnitude with direct results.
Some of these physical effects seem to be direct results of behavior.
The desire for direct results was thus natural and extremely powerful.
America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were direct results of it.
Somebody seems to be winning, someone else losing, but often the important consequences of a wartime situation are not the direct results of decisions in the theater of operations.
Those consequences have been of two kinds: the direct results of what actually happened, and the ways in which people read and misread it, which themselves produce unintended consequences.
Arts in the devolved nations would be insulated from any direct results of cultural policy change in Westminster, though they might find themselves negotiating strengthened nationalism in their own polities.
Today's Palestinian fragmentation into a nation of refugees, exiles and occupied people, with no common homeland, and the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict and regional instability and all that has caused, are direct results of Balfour's careless declaration.
The weakening of the coalition and the rise of PAS -- direct results of the campaign against Mr. Anwar -- have shaken the racial and religious balance in politics that Dr. Mahathir worked so hard over the years to put in place.
I think there are very few professions where you can really see what happens at the end, direct results, like when a ninth grader comes back to borrow the Harry Potter series.
Snow gradually gained more supporters, but the major public-health reforms of the ensuing years were not direct results of his work, and some were even inspired by the miasmal theory that he did so much to combat.
