"indirect link" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It can be used when you want to refer to a connection between two items that is not a direct correlation. For example, "Studies have found an indirect link between smoking and lung cancer."
Later, an indirect link appeared.
His already indirect link to the Alberses leads him to another Black Mountain figure, the American ceramist Karen Karnes.
(There's an indirect link between those guitars and innocence, having to do with thin or trebly tones that can cut through a group sound like a child's cry).
The judicial body confirmed establishing an indirect link with the elder Gaddafi scion, who is believed to be in southern Libya where he is attempting to reach either Niger or Mali.
Because of the probabilistic and often indirect link between weather and climate, clearly worded statements about cause and effect – or confident predictions about climate impacts in the future – are often problematic for scientists to make.
He declined to discuss any specific negotiations, but said that a problem with taking a stake in AT&T Wireless would be that company's indirect link to Japan Telecom.
Khalil al-Deek, a dual American-Jordanian citizen of Palestinian origin arrested in Pakistan, is also reported to have an indirect link to Mr. Bin Laden's group in Afghanistan, the report says.
If anything, they said, the indirect link is a hindrance because the firm will have to be wary of taking any legal work involving the county that might appear to be a conflict of interest.
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, described the participation of individuals "linked to groups affiliated with or sympathetic with Al Qaeda" — acknowledging, at best, a tenuous or indirect link.
Justification of the indirect link with properties: Prediction does not have a Property identifier attribute.
Thus, we have an indirect link between 'furospongolide' and 'angiogenesis' (Figure 3).
