The phrase 'directly means' is not correct and not typically used in written English.
If you want to express that something means something else, you can use phrases such as "implies," "signifies," "indicates," or "denotes." For example, "The decline in his grades directly implies that he is not working hard enough."
She was named Sigurros, which when translated directly means "Victory Rose", and is a fairly common first name in Iceland.
It's the children whose parents do directly address race — and directly means far more than vaguely declaring everyone to be equal — who are less likely to make assumptions about people based on the color of our skin.
You claim that forcing insurers, rather than employers directly, means "no employer involvement," but self-insuring employers are the insurer, and for the rest, the employer still provides the plan that becomes the conduit for the coverage and pays the premiums.
In this paper, the term "general science" directly means the nature of the subject in secondary schools.
For TREE and TREE-D, increase in wake-up interval directly means increased packet delay, since there is no opportunistic forwarding.
In addition, having indies upload music directly means Spotify could better compete against Apple Music by attracting more artists and their fans to its platform.
Although freeing this public budget does not directly mean that there will more economic growth or better social spending, it does open an opportunity to redirect this money to education, health, and environment.
Being able to contact the local partner directly meant Ali found out they didn't have the capacity to take on a volunteer with the human trafficking team, but needed volunteers to help hill tribes get Thai citizenship.
Therefore, the negative or positive sign of the substitution energy ΔE does not directly mean that Mg ions enter the crystal or not.
The definition that I use is directly related to the pension benefit, which I prefer because in developing countries, having a contract does not directly mean having a wide range of benefits.
While there is little doubt that climate change will affect grazing ruminants directly, mean temperature increases of ∼3 °C and longer drought stress periods in summer may also influence the free-living stages of parasitic nematodes.
